Jean-Alain Tremblay (March 18, 1952 – June 9, 2005) was a writer who lived in the

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and th ...

region of Quebec, Canada. The son of Gérard Tremblay and Rita Dufour, he was born Jeannot Tremblay in Alma, Quebec. Tremblay received a bachelor's degree in administration from

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. He worked as director of employment development at Chicoutimi for Employment and Immigration Canada and later as director of regional operations for Réseau Emploi-Québec du Saguenay/Lac St-Jean. His first novel ''La nuit des Perséides'', published in 1989, received the

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, the and the . This was followed by ''La grande chamaille'', published in 1993. Tremblay also wrote a radio drama ''Par la bande'', broadcast on

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in 2001. He published a nine volume collection of short stories based in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region: ''Un lac, un fjord, un fleuve''. Tremblay was president of the Musée Louis-Hémon de Péribonka from 1992 to 1995 and was a founding member of the Association professionnelle des écrivains de la Sagamie Côte-Nord, also serving as its president. He was married to Manon Brault; the couple had four children. Tremblay died in Chicoutimi at the age of 53.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tremblay, Jean-Alain 1952 births 2005 deaths Canadian male novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian male short story writers Canadian short story writers in French People from Alma, Quebec Writers from Quebec