François Avard (born 6 June 1968) is a Canadian writer and

scenarist A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

best known as the writer of the Québécois television series ''

Les Bougon ''Les Bougon - c'est aussi ça la vie!'' is a Quebec sitcom broadcast by Radio-Canada from 2004 to 2006, written by François Avard and Jean-François Mercier and produced by Fabienne Larouche. The show won three Gémeaux in 2004. The show's fi ...

''. He is the creator and co-author (with Jean-Francois Mercier) of the satirical series

. He wrote for multiple French-Canadian series, including Caméra Café, 3X Rien, CA and Bob Gratton. He was a sponsor of the series Ramdam for which he received two

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in collaboration with writer Fabienne Cortes. He also worked for two seasons of "Ici Louis-José Houde" and the show Pendant ce temps, devant la télé on CBC. He has been working with comedian Martin Matte since 1995. He also worked with

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to write two of his one-man shows and co-wrote his texts for the animation of the

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. He's also been working with a number of other humorists, including Jean-Francois Mercier, Cathy Gauthier, Patrick Groulx and Pierre Hébert. On February 25, 2010, François Avard has signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for

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against Israeli apartheid.

Novels

* ''L’Esprit de Bottine'', Les Intouchables, Montréal, 1991, 262 p. () * ''Les Uniques'', Éditions Guérin, Montréal, 1993, 255 p. () * ''Le Dernier Continent,'' Les Intouchables, Montréal, 1997, 334 p. () * ''Mpambara, y a trop de blanc au Québec'', Les 400 Coups, Montréal, 2003, 55 p. () * ''Pour de vrai'', Libre Expression, Outremont, 2003, 312 p. () * ''Bancs publics'', Lanctôt, Montréal, 2006, 197 p. () * ''Avard Chronique'', Les Intouchables , Montréal, 2008, 332 p. ()

Television

* 2001: Caméra Café (script adaptation) * 2001: Ramdam (writer) * 2002: Real-it (script editor) * 2003: 3X Rien (script editor) * 2004: Les Bougon, c'est aussi ça la vie! (co-creator and writer) * 2005: Ici Louis-José Houde (script editor) * 2006: CA (script advisor) * 2007: Bob Gratton: ma vie, my life (script editor) * 2007: Pendant ce temps, devant la télé (script editor) * 2009: Vrak la vie (script editor) * 2009: Bye-Bye 2009 (script editor and writer)

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"Le créateur des Bougon préfère son clavier aux feux de la rampe."
{{DEFAULTSORT:Avard, Francois 1968 births Living people Canadian male television writers Canadian male screenwriters Canadian screenwriters in French Screenwriters from Quebec Université du Québec à Montréal alumni de:Avard