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José Acquelin José Acquelin (born April 4, 1956 in Montreal) is a Canadian poet from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2014 Governor General's Awards for ''Anarchie de la lumière'',
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Hubert Aquin Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec writer, filmmaker and intellectual. He is particularly known for his novel ''Next Episode (novel), Next Episode''. He is also an important figure in the history of the Quebec Soverei ...
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Nelly Arcan Nelly Arcan (March 5, 1973 – September 24, 2009) was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Biography Arcan's first novel ''Putain'' (2001; English: '' ...
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Gilles Archambault Gilles Archambault (born September 19, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada. He studied at the Université de Montréal in 1957, and then worked at Radio-Canada, while working as a journalist. From 1988 to 19 ...
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Olivar Asselin Olivar Asselin (November 8, 1874 – April 18, 1937) was a writer and journalist in Quebec, Canada. He was a prominent nationalist, pamphleteer and polemist. Biography Asselin was born in Saint-Hilarion, Charlevoix, Quebec. His name is a com ...
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Aude Aude ( ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it " ...
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Victor Barbeau Victor Barbeau, (18 August 1894 – 19 July 1994) was a Quebec writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Barbeau was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie, Université Laval, and University of Paris. From 1925 to 1963, he was a professor at HE ...
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Robertine Barry Robertine Barry (26 February 1863 – 7 January 1910), pseudonym Françoise, was an early French Canadian journalist and publisher and a popular member of Montreal society. Early life Robertine Barry was born in L’Île-Verte, Lower Canad ...
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Yves Beauchemin Yves Beauchemin (; born 26 June 1941) is a Québécois novelist. Born in Rouyn-Noranda and raised in the village of Clova, Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught ...
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Honoré Beaugrand Honoré Beaugrand (24 March 1848 – 7 October 1906) was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec. As a young graduate from military school Beaugrand joined the French military forces und ...
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Victor-Lévy Beaulieu Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (; September 2, 1945 – June 9, 2025) was a French Canadian writer, playwright, and editor. Born in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec, in the area of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Beaulieu began primary school at Trois-Pistoles, Queb ...
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Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only write ...
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Christophe Bernard Christophe Bernard (born 1982) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.
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Jovette Bernier Marie-Angèle "Jovette" Alice Bernier (November 27, 1900 – December 4, 1981) was a journalist and writer in Quebec. Because of extensive exposure in the print media and on radio, she was often referred to simply as Jovette. Biography The daught ...
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Louky Bersianik Louky Bersianik (14 November 1930 – 3 December 2011) was the pen name of Lucile Durand, a French-Canadian novelist. She studied French literature at the Université de Montréal, the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and the Centre d'études de ra ...
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Claudine Bertrand Claudine Bertrand (born 4 July 1948) is a Quebec educator and poet. Life Bertrand was born in Montreal and studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she received a Master's degree in literary studies. Bertrand taught literature ...
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Gérard Bessette Gérard Bessette (25 February 1920 – 21 February 2005) was a Canadian writer and educator. Bessette was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Quebec, and grew up in Montreal. He attended the Collège Saint-Ignace. He continued his studies at th ...
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Lise Bissonnette Lise Bissonnette (born December 13, 1945) is a Canadian writer and journalist. Biography Born in Rouyn, Quebec, Bissonnette studied education science at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1970. She later pursued doctoral studies at th ...
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Neil Bissoondath Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born 19 April 1955, in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who lives in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is a noted writer of fiction. He is an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multicultura ...
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Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...
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Maxime Raymond Bock Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2017 short story collection ''Les noyades secondaires'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at t ...
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France Boisvert France Boisvert (born June 10, 1959) is a Quebec educator and writer. Life She was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and received a bachelor's and master's degree in French studies at the Université de Sherbrooke and a PhD from the Université de Montr ...
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Louise Bombardier Louise Bombardier (Sherbrooke, July 11, 1953) is a Canadian actress and writer from Quebec. Early life and education Louise Bombardier was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on July 11, 1953. She studied literature and then theatre in the theatre optio ...
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Paul-Émile Borduas Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québécois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. B ...
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Jacques Brault Jacques Brault (29 March 1933 – 20 October 2022) was a French Canadian poet and translator who lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the ...
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Lysette Brochu Lysette Brochu (born 1946) is a French-Canadian writer. She was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and was educated at the University of Ottawa. She received her certification for teaching in Ontario and also studied theology. She earned a ...
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Nicole Brossard Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She lives i ...
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Chrystine Brouillet Chrystine Brouillet, (born 15 February 1958) is a Canadian novelist. Early life Born in Loretteville, Quebec, Canada she was educated at Collège Notre-Dame-de-Bellevue, the Séminaire de Québec, and the Université Laval. Career Brouille ...
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Jean-François Caron Jean-François Caron may refer to: * Jean-François Caron (politician) *Jean-François Caron (strongman) *Jean-François Caron (writer) Jean-François Caron (born February 19, 1978) is a Canadian writer from Quebec, most noted for his 2017 novel ...
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Roch Carrier Roch Carrier (born 13 May 1937) is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada. Life He was born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec, and studied a ...
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George-Étienne Cartier Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, (pronounced ; September 6, 1814May 20, 1873) was a Canadians, Canadian statesman and Fathers of Confederation, Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, th ...
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Henri-Raymond Casgrain Henri-Raymond Casgrain (December 16, 1831 РFebruary 11, 1904) was a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest, author, publisher, and professor of history. Life Born in Rivi̬re-Ouelle, Lower Canada, the son Charles-Eus̬be Casgrain and Eli ...
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Éric Chacour Éric Chacour (born November 5, 1983) is a Canadian writer from Quebec, whose debut novel ''Ce que je sais de toi'' was published in 2023. Born in Montreal to immigrant parents from Egypt, he spent his childhood in both Quebec and France, and stu ...
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Catherine Chandler Catherine M. Chandler (born November 1950) is a Canadian poet and translator, born in Queens, New York City and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, emigrating to Canada in 1971. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish from ...
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Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (; May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer and politician. Chauveau was the first premier of Quebec, following the establishment of Canada in 1867. Appointed to the office in 1867 as the l ...
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Évelyne de la Chenelière Évelyne de la Chenelière (born 1975) is a Canadian writer and actress. She is best known for her plays ''Désordre public'', which won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 2006, and ''Bashir Lazhar'', which was the screenplay ...
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Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...
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Laure Conan Marie-Louise-F̩licit̩ Angers (9 January 1845 Р6 June 1924), better known by her pen name Laure Conan, was a French Canadian writer and journalist. She is regarded as one of the first French-Canadian female novelists and the writer of th ...
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Arlette Cousture Arlette Cousture, (born April 3, 1948) is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec.Mary Jean Matthews Green. Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text'. McGill-Queen's P ...
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Octave Crémazie Octave Crémazie (; April 16, 1827 – January 16, 1879) was a French Canadian poet and bookseller born in Quebec City. Recognized both during and after his lifetime for his patriotic verse and his significant role in the cultural development of ...
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Jean-Marc Dalpé Jean-Marc Dalpé (born February 21, 1957) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature. Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1973. In 1979, he obtained grad ...
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Monique Deland Monique Deland (born July 6, 1958) is a Quebecer poet. She is a recipient of the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît (1993), Prix Émile-Nelligan (1995), Prix Alain-Grandbois (2009), Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard (2010), and the Grand Prix Quebecor du F ...
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Esther Delisle Esther Delisle (born 1954) is a Canadian historian and author. Biography Born and raised in Quebec City, she completed her BA and MA in political science at Université Laval and taught political theory at a CEGEP, and also worked as a researc ...
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Jean-Paul Desbiens Brother Jean-Paul Desbiens, Frère Pierre-Jérôme, F.M.S., OC (; March 7, 1927 – July 23, 2006) was a Quebec writer, journalist, teacher and member of the Catholic institute of Marist Brothers. He was born at Métabetchouan in the Lac Sa ...
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Louis-Antoine Dessaulles Louis-Antoine Dessaulles (1818 РAugust 4, 1895) was a Quebec seigneur, journalist and political figure. He was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada in 1818, the son of Jean Dessaulles, and studied at the Coll̬ge de Saint-Hyacinthe and th ...
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Aurore Dessureault-Desc̫teaux Aurore Dessureault-Desc̫teaux (May 10, 1926 РApril 24, 2015) was a writer in Quebec, Canada. She was perhaps best known as the author of the t̩l̩roman . She was born Aurore Dessureault in Saint-Narcisse. She married Rosario Desc̫teaux, ...
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Ann Diamond Ann Diamond (born 11 April 1951 in Montreal) is a Canadian poet, short story writer, and novelist. Early life Diamond was born 11 April 1951 in Montreal. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University before studying creative writing ...
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Nicolas Dickner Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2005 novel '' Nikolski'', which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated ...
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Hélène Dorion Hélène Dorion, (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadians, Canadian poet, and writer. Life Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher Noroît from 1991 until 2000. She also conducted a series of audio recordings of ...
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Réjean Ducharme Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful bo ...
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Fernand Dumont Fernand Dumont (24 June 1927 â€“ 1 May 1997) was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec.Louise Dupré Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a Quebec poet and novelist. The daughter of Cécile Paré and Arthur Dupré, she was born in Sherbrooke and was educated at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, receiving a PhD in l ...


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Bernard Émond Bernard Émond (born 1951) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcas ...
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Louis Émond Louis Émond (born November 9, 1969) is a Quebec writer. Biography Émond was born in Lévis, Quebec, Canada and earned his International Baccalaureate at the Petit Séminaire in Quebec City, where he studied under such teachers as Monique Ség ...


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Alain Farah Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents,Trevor Ferguson *
Jacques Ferron Jacques Ferron (January 20, 1921 – April 22, 1985) was a Canadian physician and author. Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec, the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On March 5, 1931, his mother died. He attended Coll� ...
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Naomi Fontaine Naomi Fontaine is a Canadians, Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations in Canada, First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation. Biography A member ...
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette Louis-Honoré Fréchette (; November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908) was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, and ...
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Madeleine Gagnon Madeleine Gagnon (born July 27, 1938) is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer. Biography She was born in Amqui in the valley of the Matapedia River and was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in Moncton, at the Université de M ...
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Mavis Gallant Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, ( Young; 11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays. Person ...
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François-Xavier Garneau François-Xavier Garneau (June 15, 1809 – February 2 or February 3, 1866) was a nineteenth-century French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and liberal who wrote a three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled ''Histoire du Can ...
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Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé (; 30 October 1786 – 29 January 1871) was a Canadian lawyer, writer, and seigneur. He is known chiefly for his novel '' Les Anciens Canadiens'', considered the first classic of French Canadian fiction. Biograp ...
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Claude Gauvreau Claude Gauvreau (August 19, 1925 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada – July 7, 1971 in Montreal) was a playwright, poet, sound poet, and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Glob ...
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Gratien G̩linas Gratien G̩linas, (December 8, 1909 РMarch 16, 1999) was a Canadian writer, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film. His major works include ''Tit ...
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Antoine Gérin-Lajoie Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (; August 4, 1824 – August 7, 1882) was a Québécois Canadian lawyer, poet and novelist. He was the author of the famous poem " Un Canadien errant" ('A Wandering Canadian'), as well as the novels roman du terroir ''Jean ...
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Jacques Godbout Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (''touche-à-tout''), Godbout has become one of the most important wr ...
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David Gow David James Gow CBE (born 1957) is the inventor of the i-Limb prosthetic hand. He was made an honorary Doctor of Science in November 2018 by the University of Edinburgh. Biography He was born in Dumfries in 1957 and was educated at Breconbeds S ...
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Alain Grandbois Alain Grandbois, (May 25, 1900 – March 18, 1975) was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one. Traveling around the world in 1918-1939 and sharing the hopes and problems of contemporary man, his work combined the th ...
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Lionel Groulx Lionel Groulx (; 13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist. Biography Early life and ordination Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, ...


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Valérie Harvey Valérie Harvey (born 1979) is a Canadian writer and sociologist from Quebec. Her main interest is Japan, where she lived for several years (in Kyoto), with six publications devoted to the country. For her doctoral thesis in sociology, she returned ...
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Anne Hébert Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Awards, Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once fo ...
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Louis Hémon Louis Hémon (12 October 1880 – 8 July 1913), was a French writer, best known for his novel '' Maria Chapdelaine''. Biography Louis Hémon was born in Brest, France. In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Mont ...
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Claire Holden Rothman Claire Holden Rothman is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and translator.
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Nicole Houde Nicole Houde (November 1, 1945 – February 2, 2016) was a Quebec writer. The daughter of Thérèse Simard and Roland Houde, she was born in Saint-Fulgence and studied education at the École normale Bon-Pasteur and anthropology at the Universit� ...


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Suzanne Jacob Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic. Life and career Born in the town of Amos, in the Abitibi region of Québec, she studied classics at the Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomp ...
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Roland-Benoît Jomphe Roland-Benoît Jomphe (1917–2003) was a Quebec poet from the Minganie region of Quebec. Early life He was born at Pointe-aux-Esquimaux in what later became the town of Havre-Saint-Pierre. His father was a fisherman. Career Jomphe became a f ...
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Gilles Jobidon Gilles Jobidon (born November 8, 1950) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his novel ''Le Tranquille affligé'', which was the winner of the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie in 2019. His debut novel ''La route des p ...


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Dany Laferrière Dany Laferrière (; born Windsor Klébert Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a writer and filmmaker. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and P ...
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Kevin Lambert Kev Lambert (born 1992) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.Christopher DiRaddo"A thrilling debut novel takes revenge on smalltown homophobia" ''Xtra!'', September 28, 2020. He is most noted for his novel ''Querelle de Roberval'', which won the Prix ...
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Serge Lamothe Serge Lamothe (born February 15, 1963) is a French-Canadian writer. Education He holds a master's degree in literature from Laval University in Quebec City. Career He was a member of the board and vice president, in 2005, of UNEQ (Quebec Write ...
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Pierre de Sales Laterrière Pierre de Sales Laterrière (; 1743 or 1747 – 14 June 1815), was an adventurer who left France in 1766. He was inspector and director of the ironworking Forges du Saint-Maurice and seigneur of the municipality Les Éboulements in New Franc ...
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F̩lix Leclerc F̩lix Leclerc (August 2, 1914 РAugust 8, 1988) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posthumously inducted into ...
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Roger Lemelin Roger Lemelin, (April 7, 1919 – March 16, 1992) was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist. Biography Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines ''Time'' and ...
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Robert Lepage Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director. Early life Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair lo ...
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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (January 12, 1829 – September 20, 1879), born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and ...
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Samantha Leriche-Gionet Samantha Leriche-Gionet (born March 8, 1985), also known by the pseudonym Boum, is a French Canadian animator, illustrator, and comic strip author, as well as a filmmaker. She has always lived in the east end of the city of Montreal, Quebec.Bergero ...
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Pierre Leroux Pierre Henri Leroux (; 7 April 1797 – 12 April 1871) was a French philosopher and political economy, political economist. He was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, France, Paris, the son of an artisan. Life His education was interrupted by ...


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Andr̩e Maillet Andr̩e Maillet (June 7, 1921 РDecember 3, 1995), was a Quebec writer. Biography The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, ...
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Antonine Maillet Antonine Maillet (10 May 1929 – 17 February 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar. Early life and education Maillet was born on 10 May 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick"Antonine Maillet." ''Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de ...
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Jovette Marchessault Jovette Marchessault () (February 9, 1938 – December 31, 2012)
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Fleury Mesplet Fleury Mesplet (January 10, 1734 – January 24, 1794) was a French-born Canadian printer best known for founding the ''Montreal Gazette'', Quebec's oldest daily newspaper, in 1778.Galarneau, Claude.Mesplet, Fleury, in ''Dictionary of Canadia ...
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Gaston Miron Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron' ...
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Jeffrey Moore Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the University of Paris (post-1970), Sorbonne and the ...
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Wajdi Mouawad Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (; born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play ''Incendies'' (2003). His works often revolve around famil ...


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Émile Nelligan Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in French. Even though he stopped writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of 19, Nelligan remains an iconic figur ...
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Pierre Nepveu Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Depar ...


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H̩l̬ne Ouvrard H̩l̬ne Ouvrard (November 3, 1938 РJanuary 6, 1999) was a Quebec writer. Biography The daughter of Bernadette Boily and Jean de la Salle Ouvrard, she was born in Montreal and was educated at the Coll̬ge Marguerite-Bourgeoys, also studying ...


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Louise Penny Louise Penny (born July 1, 1958) is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broa ...
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Bryan Perro Bryan Perro (born Bryan Perrault, 11 June 1968) is the author of the children's fantasy fiction series Amos Daragon, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'. Back ...
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Joseph-Octave Plessis Joseph-Octave Plessis (March 3, 1763 – December 4, 1825) was a Canadians, Canadian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to ...
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Jacques Poulin Jacques Poulin (; born 23 September 1937 in Saint-Gédéon, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing. Poulin studied psychology and arts at the Université Laval in Quebec City; he started his career as commercial ...
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Yves Préfontaine Yves Préfontaine (1 February 1937 in Montreal, Quebec – 31 March 2019) was a Canadian writer based in Quebec. Books * Boreal (1967) * Les Temples effondres (1957) * La Poesie et nous (1958) * L'Antre du poeme (1960) * Pays sans parole (1967) ...
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Monique Proulx Monique Proulx (born January 17, 1952, in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She obtained a bachelor's degree in literature and theater from Laval University. She was a theater facilitator, French t ...


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Joseph Quesnel Joseph Quesnel (15 November 1746 – 2 or 3 July 1809) was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, ''Colas et Colinette'' and ''Lucas et Cécile''; the former is considered to be the first Canadian oper ...
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Pascale Quiviger Pascale Quiviger (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy. Quiviger is married to former Briti ...


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Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 â€“ July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and ''Barney's Version (novel), Barney's Versi ...
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Louis Riel Louis Riel (; ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis in Canada, Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of ...
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Suzanne Robert Suzanne Robert (1948 РJune 3, 2007) was a Quebec writer. She was born in Montreal and received a BA from the Coll̬ge J̩sus-Marie d'Outremont and a master's degree in biological anthropology from the Universit̩ de Montr̩al. From 1984 to ...
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Esther Rochon Esther Rochon (née Blackburn, born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian science fiction writer. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the daughter of screenwriter Marthe Blackburn and composer Maurice Blackburn. At the age of 16, she won the Governor General Firs ...
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Adolphe-Basile Routhier Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier (; May 8, 1839 – June 27, 1920) was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem " O Canada". He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec, ...
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André Roy André Roy (born February 8, 1975) is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career Roy was born in Port Chester, New York. As a youth, he played in the 1989 Que ...
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Gabrielle Roy Gabrielle Roy (; March 22, 1909July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature. Early life Roy was born in 1909 in Saint-Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, an ...


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F̩lix-Antoine Savard F̩lix-Antoine Savard, (August 31, 1896 РAugust 24, 1982) was a Canadian priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist. Born in Quebec City, he grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1918 and was ordained a pri ...
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Jocelyne Saucier Jocelyne Saucier (born May 27, 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec. Career Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue regio ...
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Aki Shimazaki Aki Shimazaki (born 1954 in Gifu, Japan) is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French. Her ...
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Jaspreet Singh Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and chemist. Life and early career He grew up in Punjab, a state of India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. F ...
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Sonja Skarstedt Sonja Skarstedt (October 2, 1960 – July 31, 2009) was a Canadian poet, short story, playwright writer, painter and illustrator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she was the founder and former editor of the literary magazine '' Zymergy, 1987-1991'', and ...
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Gaétan Soucy Gaétan Soucy (October 21, 1958 – July 9, 2013) was a Canadian novelist and professor. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soucy studied physics at Université de Montréal, completed a master's degree in philosophy, and studied Japanese language a ...
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Jules-Paul Tardivel Jules-Paul Tardivel (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American–Canadian writer and a promoter of Quebec nationalism. Tardivel was born in Covington, Kentucky, Covington, Kentucky, and sent to Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Saint-Hy ...
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France Théoret France Théoret (born 1942) is a Canadian feminist, author, poet, and teacher. Biography France Théoret was born in Montreal, Quebec on October 17, 1942. Although she grew up in a house without many books, she discovered she loved to write in ...
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Yves Thériault Yves Thériault OC (November 27, 1915 – October 20, 1983) was a Canadian author. He was born in Quebec City to Alcide and Aurore (Nadeau) Thériault. On April 21, 1942, he married Germaine Blanchet, with whom he had two children, Marie-José ...
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Michaël Trahan Michaël Trahan (born 1984) is a Canadian poet from Quebec.
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Larry Tremblay Larry Tremblay (born April 17, 1954) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.Larry Tremblay
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Lise Tremblay Lise Tremblay (born 13 June 1957) is a French Canadian novelist. Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her first awards were presented at the Saguenay-Lac. St Jean book festival for her 1990 debut novel ''L'hiver de pluie''. Her 1999 novel ...
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Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...
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Marie-Rose Turcot Marie-Rose Turcot (July 2, 1887 РNovember 27, 1977) was a Canadian writer. Turcot was born in Laurierville, Quebec, to Belz̩mire Rousseau and Georges Turcot, a member of the Canadian House of Commons. She was educated at a convent in Ples ...
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Élise Turcotte Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature ...


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Marie Uguay Marie Uguay (April 22, 1955 – October 26, 1981) was a French Canadian poet from the province of Quebec. Her first book of poetry was ''Signe et rumeur'' (1976). She was born in the former town of Ville-Émard. It has become a district of the cit ...


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Pierre Vallières Pierre "PK" Vallières (22 February 1938 – 23 December 1998) was a Canadian journalist and writer, known as an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). He was the author of the essay ''Nègres blancs d'Amérique'', wh ...
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Élisabeth Vonarburg Élisabeth Vonarburg (born 5 August 1947) is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris (France) and has lived in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973. From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French-Canadian ...


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List of Quebecers This is a list of notable people who are from Quebec, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province. Anchors * Kim Brunhuber, former CBC anchor / CNN newscaster journalist broadcaster * Pierre Bruneau, ...
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List of Canadian writers This is a list of Canadian literature, Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. __NOTOC__ A B C Jenny Denis 1983 high Fantasy YA Dragons of Nesbit E F G H I J ...
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List of Canadian women writers in French This is a list of Canadian women writers in French who were born in Canada or whose writings in French are closely associated with that country. It was in the mid-19th century that French-speaking women began to contribute to Canadian literature ...
* List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec *
Francophone literature Francophone literature is literature written in the French language. The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of liter ...


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* {{in lang, fr}
L'ÎLE, le Centre de documentation virtuel sur la littérature québécoise
– biographies and bibliographies of over 1000 Quebec authors *
Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
Writers A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stori ...