Fanny Britt
Fanny Britt is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Libris Award, and a Joe Shuster Award and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. Sugaring Off won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French Language Fiction in 2021. Britt has written a dozen plays and translated more than 15 works by many American, Canadian, British, and Irish playwrights. Born in northern Quebec, Britt lives in Montreal.
Instagram: @fannybrittenpublic
FESTIVAL SHOWS
Le Matin Avec Fanny Britt & SUSAN OURIOU
Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor
Turtle Island Reads (New Show)
Oct. 17 @ 7:30 PM $25
DJD Dance Centre
FESTIVAL BOOK
Sugaring Off
On the surface, Adam and Marion are the embodiment of success: wealthy, attractive, in love. While holidaying in Martha’s Vineyard, Adam surfs into a local young woman, Celia. The accident leaves her injured and financially at risk; for Adam and Marion it opens a fault of loneliness, rage, and desires that have too long been ignored.
Like a modern Virginia Woolf, Fanny Britt abrades the surface layer of our outward personas, delving into the complexity and contradictions of relationships. In this eviscerating critique of privilege, she asks what happens when one can no longer play a role—whether in a couple, family, or social structure—and the resulting friction between pleasure and consequence.
Winner of a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Sugaring Off probes intimacy, denial, and how we are tied to others, whether those we love or exploit.
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BE CURIOUSER
- KidLit Dream Team Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault on Life as Co-Creators. –Open Book
- French-Language Essay: Écrire Avec Facultés Affaiblies. –Fanny Britt, Granta
- French-Language Radio Segment: La culture, une preuve d’amour dans la famille de Fanny Britt. –Radio-Canada
