Serge Lamothe (born February 15, 1963) is a French-Canadian writer.

Education

He holds a master's degree in literature from

Laval University Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxe ...

in Quebec City.

Career

He was a member of the board and vice president, in 2005, of UNEQ ( Quebec Writers Union). From 2006 to 2015, he was a member of the board of the FIL (International Festival of Literature) in Montreal, Canada.

Theater

*''Le Prince de Miguasha'', radio play, Radio-Canada, 2003. *''Rapports intimes'', translation & adaptation of ''

Intimate Exchanges ''Intimate Exchanges'' is a play by Alan Ayckbourn. Written between 1982 and 1983 it consists of eight major stories all originating from a single opening scene. As the play progresses the characters make choices, each of which causes the story ...

'' by

Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. As of 2025, he has written and produced 90 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen ...

, 2003. *''Le Procès de Kafka'', stage adaptation of ''

The Trial ''The Trial'' () is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, wi ...

'', by

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Litera ...

, 2004. *''Le fusil de chasse'', stage adaptation of ''The Hunting Gun'', by

Yasushi Inoue was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include '' The Bullfight'' (''Tōgyū'', 1949), ''The Roof Tile of Tempyō'' (''Tenpyō no iraka' ...

, 2010. *''Kinkaku-ji'', stage adaptation of ''

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young ...

'' by

Yukio Mishima Kimitake Hiraoka ( , ''Hiraoka Kimitake''; 14 January 192525 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima ( , ''Mishima Yukio''), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, Ultranationalism (Japan), ultranationalis ...

, directed by

Amon Miyamoto Amon Miyamoto (; born January 4, 1958, in Tokyo) is a theater director. He has directed numerous productions in Japan and worldwide, including musicals, straight plays, opera, kabuki, and other art genres. In 2004, he became the first Japanese d ...

, Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Tokyo, and

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

, NYC, 2011. *''Waiting for Godot'', by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

, dramatist, directed by

François Girard François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal. Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, ''Car ...

, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde,

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

, 2016. *''

Underneath the Lintel ''Underneath the Lintel'' is a play by Glen Berger that premièred in 2001. The sole character—the Librarian—embarks on a quest to find out who anonymously returned a library book that is 113 years overdue. A clue scribbled in the margin of the ...

'', by

Glen Berger Glen Berger is an American playwright and scriptwriter. He has received commissions from the Children’s Theater of Minneapolis, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and the Lookingglass Theater. In 2010, he co-wrote the book for '' Spi ...

, dramatist and translation to French (''Zebrina – Une pièce à conviction''), directed by

, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and Segal Centre,

, 2020.

Circus

* 2008 '' Zed'', dramatist,

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...

, directed by François Girard, Tokyo. * 2011 ''

Zarkana ''Zarkana'' was a Cirque du Soleil stage production written and directed by François Girard. It began as a touring show in 2011 and was converted to a resident show in Las Vegas in late 2012. It premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New Yor ...

'', dramatist, Cirque du Soleil, directed by

Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and Theater (structure), theater at 1260 Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York C ...

(NYC), Madrid Arena (Spain),

State Kremlin Palace The State Kremlin Palace (), previously and unofficially known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский дворец съездов), is a large modern building inside the Moscow Kremlin. History The building was built at th ...

(Moscow) and Aria Resort, Las Vegas.

Opera (with director François Girard)

* 2006 ''

The Seven Deadly Sins The seven deadly sins is a classification of vices used in Christian teachings. Seven deadly sins may also refer to: Art * ''The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things'', a 1485 painting by Hieronymus Bosch * ''The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern ...

& Lindbergh's Flight'', dramaturg, libretti by

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

, music by

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

Opéra National de Lyon The Opéra National de Lyon (), marketed as Opéra de Lyon during the last decade, is an opera company in Lyon, based and performing mostly at the Opéra Nouvel, an 1831 theater that was modernized and architecturally transformed in 1993. Histo ...

, France. * 2010 ''

Émilie Émilie () is a French female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Émile. People named Émilie and Emilie include: * Émilie Ambre (1849–1898), French opera singer * Emilie Autumn (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, poet ...

'', dramaturg, libretto by

Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese people in France, Lebanese-born French"A ...

, music by

Kaija Saariaho Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the En ...

, France. * 2012 ''

Parsifal ''Parsifal'' ( WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance ''Parzival'' of th ...

'', dramaturg, libretto and music by

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

, Opéra national de Lyon, France,

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center), Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Referred ...

, New York (2013). * 2019 ''The Flying Dutchman'', (''

Der Fliegende Holländer ' (''The Flying Dutchman''), Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner Conducting, conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hofthe ...

''), dramaturg, libretto and music by

, Grand Théâtre de Québec. * 2020 ''The Flying Dutchman'', (''

''), dramaturg, libretto and music by

, New York. * 2022 '' ''Lohengrin'' (opera)'', dramaturg, libretto and music by

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈat(ə)r, t=Grand Theater) is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolutio ...

, Moscow. * 2023 '' ''Lohengrin'' (opera)'', dramaturg, libretto and music by

, New York.

Bibliography

*''La longue portée'', novel, L'instant même, Quebec, (1998). *''La tierce personne'', novel, L'instant même, Quebec, (2000). *''L'ange au berceau'', novel, L'instant même, Quebec, (2002). *''Les Baldwin'', novel, L'instant même, Quebec, (2004). *''The Baldwins'', novel, (English translation by Fred A. Reed & David Homel),

Talonbooks Talonbooks is an independent publisher of Canadian literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its repertoire features authors writing in the literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction books in the fields of ethnogra ...

, Vancouver, (2006). *''Tu n'as que ce sang'', poetry, Mémoire d'encrier, Montreal, (2005). *''Le Procès de Kafka et Le Prince de Miguasha'', theater, Alto, Quebec, (2005). *''Tarquimpol'', novel, Alto, Quebec, (2007). *''Métarevers'', novel, Coups de tête, Montreal, (2009). *''Projet Perfecto'', short story, Alto, Quebec, (2010). *''Les Urbanishads'', poetry, Le lézard amoureux, Quebec, (2010). *''Le nid de l'aigle'', short stories, (photos by Sébastien Cliche) J'Ai Vu, Quebec, (2010). *''Les Enfants lumière'', novel, Alto, Quebec, (2012). *''Ma terre est un fond d'océan'', poetry, Mémoire d'encrier, Montreal, (2016) * ''Mi tierra es un fondo de océano'', poetry, (Spanish translation by Evelio Miñano Martinez), La Lucerna, Palma de Mallorca, (2023) *''Mektoub'', novel, Alto, Quebec, (2016). * ''Oshima'', novel, Alto, Quebec, (2019) * ''Oshima'', novel, (Spanish translation by Evelio Miñano Martinez) Editorial Verbum, Madrid, (2021) * ''Des nouvelles de la posthistoire'', short stories, Le Lys Bleu, Paris, France, (2021) * ''Les Urbanishads et autres poèmes'', poetry (with drawings by the author) Stellamaris, Brest, France (2021) *''Quand tu pars'', poetry, Les éditions Mains libres, Montreal, (2024)

Awards

*2003 Yves-Thériault Award from Radio-Canada for ''The Prince of Miguasha'', author *2006 Herald Angels Award for Best production

Edinburgh International Festival The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially european classical music, classical music) and ...

, pour ''Die sieben Todsünden
The Seven Deadly Sins'', directed by

, dramaturg *2008 Prix des libraires du Québec for the novel ''Tarquimpol'', finalist *2011 Kinokuniya Theatre Prize for ''Hunting Gun'', Japan, stage adaptation *2011

Yomiuri Prize The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone. Award categories For the first two years, ...

for ''Hunting Gun'', Japan, stage adaptation *2012 Prix du Syndicat de la critique, Prix Claude Rostand, for ''Parsifal'', Lyon, France, dramaturg *2014 Diapason d'or from Diapason for the DVD of ''Parsifal'' at the MET, dramaturg *2016 Prix littéraire des collégiens for the novel ''Mektoub'', finalist *2019 Prix Opus, Concert of the year for Richard Wagner's ''Der Fliegende Holländer'', Opera Festival of Québec, dramaturg *2020 Prix des Horizons imaginaires for the novel ''Oshima'', finalist

References

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External links

Official site

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