Fanny Britt

Fanny Britt is a writer and translator. She is the author of more than a dozen of plays, notably Hurlevents, Lysis (with Alexia Bürger), Couche avec moi, Chaque jour and Bienveillance. Prizewinner of the Governor's General Award in 2013, her plays have been performed on numerous stages in Quebec and elsewhere, namely at La Licorne, l’Espace Go, l’Espace libre and the Théâtre d’aujourd’hui. Readings of Bienveillance have also been performed in Germany and in the United-States. Her most recent play, Toutes choses, was presented in april 2022 on the Quat’Sous stage, under the direction of her great accomplice, Alexia Bürger.

She also works in literature. Her first novel, Les maisons, released in autumn 2015, was finalist for the France-Québec prize as well as the Collégiens prize. Her most recent novel, Faire les sucres (2020), won the Governor's General Award in 2021. She also published two essays at Atelier 10, Les tranchées - Maternité, ambiguïté, féminisme (2013) and Les retranchées – Échecs et ravissement de la famille, en milieu de course (2019), in addition to having translated and adapted more than thirty plays and novels, including works by Martin McDonagh, Annabel Soutar, Sarah Ruhl, Neil Labute, Grace O'Connell and Lisa Moore. She also translated several plays by the British author Dennis Kelly, following a first meeting with him during a translation residency at CEAD (Après la fin, Orphelins, Amour/Argent, ADN, Les filles et les garçons).

Her first collaboration with the illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, the graphic novel Jane, le renard et moi (editions de la Pastèque), was translated into around fifteen languages ​​and won numerous national and international prizes, in addition to having been ranked among the ten best illustrated books of 2013 according to the New York Times. Their second collaboration, Louis parmi les spectres, was published in the fall of 2016 and won the ACBD prize, in addition to having been a finalist, among others, for the Governor General of Canada's prize, the youth prize of the Angoulême festival and several Eisner Awards. Their most recent work, Truffe, published in September 2021, won the Youth Booksellers Prize in addition to being a finalist for several other prizes.