Roland Michel Tremblay (born October 15, 1972 in

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author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and

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consultant. He has been living in

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since 1995.

Biography

Roland Michel Tremblay was born in Quebec City but moved to the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region in the North of the Quebec province when he was 7 years old. He obtained a college diploma in Sciences from the

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in 1991, and a B.A. in French Literature and Philosophy from the

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in Ontario in 1994. He studied one year at

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in Paris and finished his master's degree in French Literature at

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in 1999. He has been writing since he was 10 years old, and lived in Canada, France,

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, the United States and the United Kingdom. He is now an author and technical adviser, writing novels, essays, poetry, television and film scripts. He has six books published in French in

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by iDLivre and GT Publishers, and his books are distributed in many French-speaking countries. Tremblay has written poetry, novels and film scripts mostly in English. He developed a science fiction website aimed at helping authors working in the genre for television. He lived in

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during 2005 and 2006, but then returned to live in

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, West London. Roland Michel Tremblay is not related to

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wit ...

, one of the most celebrated authors in

. He is openly

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Bibliography

;Published literary work in French * Eclecticism (philosophical essay), * Waiting for Paris (novel), * Denfert-Rochereau (novel), * The Anarchist (poetry), * A French-Canadian in Paris (journal/essay), * A French-Canadian in New York (journal/essay), ;Produced work in television (development producer/science consultant) (uncredited) *

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(Black Hole High, 2002) (NBC and Discovery Channel Television Series) * E=mc², The World's Most Famous Equation (WGBH/PBS, Channel 4 UK and Arte Documentary, 2003)

References

External links

The Crowned Anarchist Sci-Fi and Literature

The Marginal

L'Anarchiste Couronné Littérature
(French)
Le Marginal
(French)

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