Francine Noël (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer, whose 2005 work La Femme de ma vie won the 2006 edition of Première Chaîne's Le Combat des livres . [1]
She teaches theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal. [2]
She was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French language fiction in the 1983 Governor General's Awards for Maryse, and in the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Myriam première. She was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French language drama in the 1985 Governor General's Awards for Chandeleur.
This is an article about literature in Quebec.
Micheline Lanctôt is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Laurence Jalbert is a pop and rock singer-songwriter from Quebec.
Maryse Dubuc is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for The Bellybuttons which she created with Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf").
Djemila Benhabib is a Canadian journalist, writer, and politician who lives in Bruxelles, Belgium. She is of Algerian and Greek-Cypriot descent, and is known for her opposition to Islam.
Perrine Leblanc is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel L'homme blanc, published in 2010, won the 2010 Grand prix du livre de Montréal, the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2011 Governor General's Awards, and the 2011 edition of Le Combat des livres.
Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
Diane-Monique Daviau is a Quebec educator, writer, translator and journalist.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Janette Bertrand is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer.
Francine Saillant is a Canadian anthropologist and intellectual.
Maryse Pelletier is a Canadian actress and award-winning writer living in Quebec.
Hélène Pedneault was a Québécoise writer of many mediums who contributed much to the advancement of the feminist cause and also to Quebec sovereignty and the environment.
François Gravel is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Most noted as an author of literature for children and young adults, he has also published a number of adult novels.
Martine Delvaux is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2015 novel Blanc dehors, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
Myriam Verreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2019 film Kuessipan, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and two Prix Iris nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.
Jean-François Beauchemin is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, receiving nominations at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for Ceci est mon corps and at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse.
Marcel Sabourin, OC is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You , The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died and Now or Never , and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.
Maryse Andraos is a Canadian writer from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, whose debut novel Sans refuge was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.