title: Robert Marinier
text: # Robert Marinier
  
  Robert Marinier (born 1954 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian stage actor, playwright and television writer, who was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards for his play L'Insomnie. For the same play, he was also a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actor in a Play, Mid-Size Theatre division, in 1997.
  
  His 2021 book Un conte de l'apocalypse was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French Prose in 2022.
  
  He has also been a television writer for the series The Smoggies, Météo+ and Les Bleus de Ramville.
  
  ## Plays
  
  * 1979 - Lafortune et Lachance
  * 1980 - La Tante
  * 1982 - L'Inconception
  * 1984 - Les Rogers (with Robert Bellefeuille and Jean-Marc Dalpé)
  * 1988 - En camisoles
  * 1989 - Deuxième souffle (with Dan Lalande)
  * 1993 - À la gauche de Dieu
  * 1994 - L'Insomnie
  * 1997 - But for the Grace of God... (English translation of À la gauche de Dieu)
  * 1999 - Le golfeur et la mort
  * 1999 - Contes sudburois (with Jean-Marc Dalpé, Robert Dickson, Paulette Gagnon, Michael Gauthier and Brigitte Haentjens)
  * 2000 - Big Crunch
  * 2000 - Univers
  * 2000 - Je me souviens
  * 2005 - Épinal
  