This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-language drama. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the award is presented for plays published in print, a play's eligibility for the award can sometimes be several years later than its initial theatrical staging. Titles which compile several works by the playwright into a single volume may also be nominated for or win the award.
Winners and nominees
1980s
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| align="center" rowspan="2"| 1981
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Marie Laberge
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Jean-Pierre Ronfard
| align="center" | Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux
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| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1982
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Réjean Ducharme
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Ha ha! ...
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| align="center" | Marie Laberge
| align="center" | Avec l'hiver qui s'en vient
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| align="center" | Léo Lévesque
| align="center" | ... Quand j'y ai dit ça ... à parti à rire
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| align="center" | Jovette Marchessault
| align="center" | La terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc
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| align="center" rowspan="3"| 1983
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | René Gingras
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Syncope
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| align="center" | Michelle Allen
| align="center" | La passion de Juliette
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| align="center" | René-Daniel Dubois
| align="center" | 26 bis, impasse du Colonel Foisy
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| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1984
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | René-Daniel Dubois
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Gilbert Dupuis
| align="center" | Les Transporteurs de monde
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| align="center" | Marcel Sabourin
| align="center" | Pleurer pour rire
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| align="center" | Michel Tremblay
| align="center" | Albertine, en cinq temps
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| align="center" rowspan="3"| 1985
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Maryse Pelletier
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Michel Marc Bouchard
| align="center" | La poupée de Pélopia
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| align="center" | Francine Noël
| align="center" | Chandeleur
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| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1986
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Anne Legault
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Normand Chaurette
| align="center" | Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues
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| align="center" | Yves Desgagnés, Louise Roy
| align="center" | Les nouilles
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| align="center" | Jean-Pierre Ronfard
| align="center" | Le Titanic
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| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1987
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Jeanne-Mance Delisle
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Suzanne Aubry
| align="center" | La Nuit des p'tits couteaux
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| align="center" | Marie Laberge
| align="center" | Oublier
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| align="center" | Michel Tremblay
| align="center" | Le vrai monde?
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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 1988
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Jean-Marc Dalpé
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Normand Canac-Marquis
| align="center" | Le Syndrome de Cézanne
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| align="center" | Marie-Francine Hébert
| align="center" | Oui ou non
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| align="center" | Marco Micone
| align="center" | Déjà l'agonie
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| align="center" | André Ricard
| align="center" | Le Déversoir des larmes
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| align="center" rowspan="3"| 1989
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Michel Garneau
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | '
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| align="center" | Michel Marc Bouchard
| align="center" | Les Muses orphelines
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| align="center" | Robert Claing
| align="center" | La Femme d'intérieur
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1990s
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| align="center" | Le Collectif Aalaapi (Louisa Naluiyuk, Akinisie Novalinga, Mélodie Duplessis, Audrey Alasuak and Samantha Leclerc)
| align="center" | Aalaapi, faire silence pour entendre quelque chose de beau
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| align="center" | Suzie Bastien
| align="center" | Sucré seize (Huit filles)
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| align="center" | Olivier Choinière
| align="center" | Zoé
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| align="center" | Claude Guilmain
| align="center" | AmericanDream.ca : L'intégrale
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| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2021
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Mishka Lavigne
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Copeaux
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| align="center" | Rébecca Déraspe
| align="center" | Combattre le why-why
| align="center" rowspan="4" |
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| align="center" | Emma Haché
| align="center" | Johnny
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| align="center" | Jean-Philippe Lehoux
| align="center" | Bande de bouffons
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| align="center" | Émilie Monnet
| align="center" | Okinum
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| align="center" rowspan="5" |2022
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | David Paquet
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Le poids des fourmis
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| align="center" | Caroline Bélisle
| align="center" | Les remugles, ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte
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| align="center" | Nadia Girard Eddahia
| align="center" | Disgrâce
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| align="center" | Liliane Gougeon Moisan
| align="center" | L'Art de vivre
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| align="center" | Marie-Claude Verdier
| align="center" | Seeker
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| align="center" rowspan="5" |2023
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Mathieu Gosselin
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Gros gars
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| align="center" | Martin Bellemare
| align="center" | Charlie, du vent derrière le nombril
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| align="center" | Rébecca Déraspe
| align="center" | Les Glaces
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| align="center" | Nathalie Doummar
| align="center" | Mama
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| align="center" | Soleil Launière
| align="center" | Akuteu
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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2024
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Sarah Berthiaume
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Wollstonecraft
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| align="center" | Olivier Choinière
| align="center" | La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard
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| align="center" | Isabelle Hubert
| align="center" | Rose
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| align="center" | Geneviève Labelle, Mélodie Noël Rousseau
| align="center" | Ciseaux
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| align="center" | Johanne Parent
| align="center" | Ornithorynques
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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2025
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Éric Noël
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés
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| align="center" | Maxime Brillon
| align="center" | Awards
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| align="center" | Rébecca Déraspe
| align="center" | Fanny
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| align="center" | Olivier Kemeid
| align="center" | La vengeance et l’oubli
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| align="center" | Danièle LeBlanc
| align="center" | Paysages
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