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Suzanne Aubry (born 1956) is a Canadian novelist, scriptwriter and playwright.
Suzanne Aubry was born in Ottawa. Both her parents, Claude Aubry and Paule Saint-Onge, were novelists. Aubry received a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada. Her play La nuit des p'tits couteaux was nominated for a Governor General's Award. She wrote the script for the 1994 film Meurtre en musique, directed by Gabriel Pelletier. With Louise Pelletier, she wrote the scripts for the television series Sauve qui peut! on TVA, À nous deux!, Mon meilleur ennemiand L'or et le papier on Radio-Canada and Manon.
Aubry has also written as a critic and columnist for Le Devoir and Cahiers de théâtre Jeu. She has taught playwriting at the Institut national de l'image et du son, the Université du Québec à Montréal and the National Theatre School of Canada. She was president of the Société des auteurs en cinéma et télévision (SARTEC) from 1996 to 2000. She is a member of the Board of Directors of l'Union des Écrivaines et des Écrivains québécois (UNEQ) since 2011.
In 2006, Suzanne Aubry published her first novel Le fort intérieur, which was nominated for the Grand prix de la relève littéraire Archambault. She has written seven books in her Fanette series about an Irish orphan exiled to 19th century Quebec. The series has sold more than 95,000 copies in Canada alone. Her 9th novel, Ma vie est entre tes mains, was published in 2015 by Libre Expression. Robert Laffont has bought the rights of the novel, which will be published in France in 2016. The first volume of Fanette, Uptown Conquest, is available in English (ePub2 format) since the 25th of November 2015.
Selected works
Plays
- Une goutte d’eau sur la glace (1979)
- J’te l’parle mieux quand j'te l'écris (1981)
- Mon homme (1982)
- La Nuit des p'tits couteaux (1985)
Novels
- Le fort intérieur (2006)
- Fanette: À la conquête de la haute ville (2009), La vengeance du Lumber Lord (2009), Le secret d'Amanda (2010), L'encre et le sang (2011), Les ombres du passé (2012), Du côté des dames (2013), Honneur et disgrâce (2014)
- Ma vie est entre tes mains (2015)
- "Fanette, tome 7". Archambault.