Caroline Allard
Writer | Screenwriter
Caroline Allard was born in 1971 and spent her childhood and adolescence in Saint-Roch de l’Achigan, in Lanaudière. Her first works of fiction were written on the bus to amuse her school friends. In CÉGEP, she initially wanted to study accounting and then marketing, provoking a fair bit of hilarity among her family and friends. In 2003, she began a doctorate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal, but she has not completed it. She returned to writing fiction shortly after discovering motherhood. In 2000, she published short stories in English in online magazines such as Planet Relish, Dragonlaugh, Shadowkeep and The Murder Hole. In spring 2003, she won second place in the Solaris magazine short story contest, with a story called LUEURS D’ÉTERNITÉ.
During her second maternity leave, in March 2006, champing at the bit at home and desperately looking for an outlet, she started writing a blog. An audience quickly formed and, to her great astonishment, a publishing house soon followed. CHRONIQUES D’UNE MÈRE INDIGNE was published by Éditions du Septentrion, and it won the eighth Grand Prix littéraire Archambault in 2008.
Since 2011, she has collaborated on various television series and webseries, including FABRIQUE-MOI UN CONTE (Radio-Canada) and BOOMERANG (TVA), and more recently on the series CONSEIL DE FAMILLE which is entering its fourth season.
Screenwriting
Dans l’œil du Cyclone
2020
TV Series
Screenwriter
Amalga Creations Medias
Bye bye 2020
2020
Comedy /variety
Co-screenwriter and co-script-editor
A média/Radio-Canada
Sketchétéra
2020
ENH Graduation Show
Script-editor
Entre deux draps
2020
TV series / comedy
Co-screenwriter (season 1)
KOTV/Bell média
36e Prix Gémeaux - Nomination "Episode 6" Best text: Humor, 2021
Discussions with my parents (Discussion avec avec mes parents)
2019-2020
TV series
Co-screenwriter (season 3 et 4)
A Média/ Radio Canada
36e Prix Gémeaux - Nomination "Season 3 episode 37" Best text: Comedy, 2021
Clovis
2019
TV series
Co-screenwriter et co-script-editor (Season 1)
KOTV/ Tété-Québec
Trip à trois
2017
Feature film
Script Advisor
Les Films Sévilles
Conseil de famille 1, 2, 3 et 4
2016-2019
TV series
Co-screenwriter et script-editor
Productions KOTV II / Télé Québec
34e Gémeaux Award – Best youth text: Conseils de famille - season 4 « Episode 100 – For the best » (KOTV), 2019
Souper de filles
2014
Webseries
Co-screenwriter (12 episodes in collaboration with Geneviève Pettersen)
Jimmy Lee/LibTV
Boomerang
2014
TV series
Co-screenwriter ( 1 episode in collaboration withStéphane Dompierre)
Encore/TVA
2 filles/1 TV
2012
Webseries
Co-screenwriter (14 episodes in collaboration with Geneviève Pettersen)
LibTV/Jimmy Lee
Fabrique-moi un conte
2012
Webseries
Co-screenwriter (8 episodes in collaboration with François Archambault)
Radio-Canada
Enquête romantique
2011
Webseries
Co-screenwriter (10 episodes in collaboration with Stéphane Dompierre)
LibTV
Chroniques d’une Mère indigne
2009-2011
Series
Script-advisor for the web adaptation of "Chroniques d’une mère indigne" (Archambault Prize 2009)
Radio-Canada
Radio & TV
Plus on est de fous, plus on lit
2012- today
Radio program
Occasional collaboration
Ici Radio-Canada Première
Le sexe selon les sexes
2014
Documentary series (13 episodes)
Co-host with Rémi-Pierre Paquin
Diffusion: Moi & Cie
L’après-midi porte conseil
2009-2011
Radio program
Weekly collaboration
Radio-Canada
Histoires d'objets
2011
Radio program
Columnist
Ici Radio-Canada
La fosse aux lionnes
2009-2011
Collaboration
Radio-Canada tv
Nulle part ailleurs
2008-2009
Radio program
Bimonthly reading of humorous chronicles
Radio-Canada (Sudbury)
Books
Agathe en six semaines
2020
Novel
Québec-Amérique
Clovis, le dernier été
2020
Novel
KO Éditions
L’Abécédaire du plaisir solitaire
2016
Illustrated book
Québec-Amérique
Les chroniques d’une fille indigne, tome 2
2015
Comic book
Hamac
Les aventures de la Reine Et-Que-Ça-Saute
2014
Children's literature
Fonfon
Les chroniques d’une fille indigne
2013
Comic book
Hamac
Pour en finir avec le sexe
2011
Illustrated humor book
Hamac
Marie Claire magazine (Italy) published a six pages spread about "Pour en finir avec le sexe" in its September 2011 issue
Les joies de la maternité (poil au nez)
2009
Humorous illustrated book
Collaboration (with Élise Gravel)
Éditions Les 400 coups
Les chroniques d’une Mère indigne, tome 2
2009
Novel
Éditions du Septentrion (Québec)
Les chroniques d’une Mère indigne
2007
Novel
Éditions du Septentrion (Québec)
"Les chroniques d’une mère indigne" were published in France by Éditions Porc-Épic (2009) and translated into Italian (2010) by Éditions Cult Editore
Archambault Literary Grand Prix (worth 10 000$) - 2008
SHORT STORIES & COLLABORATIONS
Le tour des petits pénis
2020
In Projet P.
Québec-Amérique
Jamais trop de vie
2018
In « Histoires de musique et une de silence »
Tête Première
Golden Power
2016
In Travaux Manuels
Québec-Amérique
Comme la fois où j’ai joué au ballon-chasseur dans l’équipe des couples
2015
In Comme la fois où
VLB éditeur
Genre
2013
In "Miroirs"
VLB
Analyse du langage
2012-2014
Chronicle ( 01 - 05 of Nouveau Projet)
Atelier 10
Il était un petit navire
2013
« Histoires de filles sous le soleil »
Goélette
Anti-mode d’emploi pour géniteur souffrant du syndrome de la performance
2012
Nouveau Projet 01 (march 2012)
Atelier 10
Agathe en six semaines
2011
In « Cherchez la femme »
Edition Québec-Amérique, direction of India Desjradins
Nunuche Magazine 1/ Nunuche Magazine 2/ Nunuche Gurlz
2010-2011
Chronicles & short stories published in the collectives "Nunuche"
Courte échelle
Nunuche collectives are directed by Élise Gravel
La beauté du sport
2009
Cyberpresse website for Les écrivains font la nouvelle
Education
PhD in philosophy, University of Montreal
2002-2007
Title : « La distribution de la responsabilité morale au sein des organisations hiérarchisées »
Co-supervised by Daniel M. Weinstock (University of Montreal) & Wayne Norman (Duke University)
Master in philosophy, University of Montreal
1994-1999
Title : « L’utilisation des exemples dans l’argumentation philosophique »
Supervised by: Daniel M. Weinstock (University of Montreal)
Bachelor degree in philosophy, University of Montreal
1991-1994
Awards and Distinctions
2019 - Gémeaux Award for Best text – Youth (Conseils de famille)
2018 - Gémeaux Award for Best text – Youth (Conseils de famille)
2010 - Author chosen to participate in Le Devoir des écrivains
2010 - Guest of honor at the Salon du livre de Trois-Rivières
2009 - Named one of the 100 women of the year by Chatelaine magazine
2008 - Cited among the 2007 ELLE Québec magazine's Women of the Year
2007 - Guest of honor at the Salon du livre de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
2003 - Second prize winner at Solaris magazine short stories contest for the text "Lueurs d'éternité"
Since 2008 - Spokesperson for the Grands Prix Littéraires Archambault
Lectures and teachings
Lectures and teaching
2020 : Script Advisor for National School of Humor (ENH) - ENH-Netflix grants
October 2020 : Teacher at ENH – Screenwriting program (Scenes and Dialogues section)
Since january 2020 : Teacher at ENH - « Writing scene 2 » class
Since january 2018 : Teacher at ENH - « Artistic approach » class
Since January 2013 : Teacher at National School of Humor for the course « Scénarisation de sketchs humoristiques »
Since March 2012 : Teacher of a 12-hour workshop (« Scénarisation de capsules humoristiques pour une série Web ») at National School of Humor for AQAD
From 2008 to today: invited speaker in many Quebec librairies (Sainte-Julie, Sainte-Dorothée, Saint-Jérôme, St-Hyacinthe, Pierrefonds, Ahuntsic, Mile End, Repentigny, Victoriaville, Lavaltrie, Valleyfield, etc.), and other organizations (Association canadienne des femmes en communication, Association québécoise des professeurs de français, Maison l’Esther pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale, Espace-Famille Villeray, Musée de la civilisation de Québec, Rassemblement des jeunes du Bas Saint-Laurent, Cendre d’Éducation et d’Action des Femmes du quartier Centre-Sud, etc.)