Olivier Sylvestre (born 1982 in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from Quebec."Olivier Sylvestre raconte la quête de l’identité sexuelle chez les jeunes". Radio France Internationale, September 26, 2017 He is most noted for his first theatrical play La beauté du monde, which won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas and was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards,"Robyn Sarah, Nicolas Dickner among Montreal finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 7, 2015. and his short story collection, Noms fictifs, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards."Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général: les finalistes dévoilés". La Presse, October 3, 2018.
Sylvestre holds a bachelor's degree in criminology, and a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada. He was translated into English by Leanna Brodie. His monologue Le désert was premiered in January 2018 at Théâtre Prospero in a production by Le Dôme – creations théâtrales, a company Sylvestre co-leads. His play La loi de la gravité, Éditions Passages(s), has won numerous awards in Europe and was translated into English by Bobby Theodore. He has translated several plays by Canadian playwrights, Jesse Stong's You Can Do Whatever You Want and Waawaate Fobister's Agokwe."La femme en soi". Le Devoir, July 28, 2016.
His other plays have included Guide d’éducation sexuelle pour le nouveau millénaire.
His play La loi de la gravité was translated into German as Das Gesetz der Schwerkraft by Sonja Finck (Gatineau) and performed at the Theaterfestival Primeur in Saarbrücken in 2016.
Works Nom fictifs. Roman. Hamac, Quebec 2017
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External links The author at Hamac, editeur