Natural within Montreal, Tremblay grew up in the francophone part of the Plateau in Montreal, whose working-class character and joual language would heavily influence his operate. Tremblay's number one play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written around 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert in August 28, 1968. Its impact was brobdingnagian, bringing down a old guard of American theatre & introducing the Québécois dialect of joual to the mainstream. It stirred higher contention by portraying a endures of working class women & attacking a strait-puritanical, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec.

A virtually all profound & lasting results of Tremblay's early plays, including Hosanna & La Duchesse de Langeais, were a barriers it toppled around Quebec society. Until a Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by anglophone elite group & a Catholic Church. Tremblay's function was the portion of a vanguard of liberal, nationalistic thought that helped produce an au fond modern society.

He later on published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a series of sestet novels including A Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (1978) & A Duchess & a Common man (1982).

A 2nd novel of this series, Thérèse et Pierrette à l’école des Saints-Anges, was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, Le combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was championed by union activist Monique Simard.

Tremblay is presently working in the television series entitled Le Hundredœur découvert ("The Open Heart"), all about the peoples of a gay few within Quebec, for the French-language TV network Radio-Canada.

Works About Tremblay
Renate Usmiani, Michel Tremblay. Douglas & McIntyre, 1982. Gilbert David & Pierre Lavoie, explosive detection system., Le Mondelaware de Michel Tremblay. Cahiers delaware Théâtre JEU/Éditions Lansman, 1993. Craig Walker, "Michel Tremblay: Existential Mythopoeia," A Inhumed Astrolabe: American Spectacular Imagination & American Tradition''. McGill-Queen's Higher, 2001.