Nicole Brossard 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.
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Andrée Chedid, born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese and Syrian descent. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and was made a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour in 2009.
Susan (Sue) Goyette is a Canadian poet and novelist.
The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is the national poet laureate of Canada. The current poet laureate is Marie-Célie Agnant.
André du Bouchet was a French poet.
Pierre Nepveu 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 Department of Université de Montréal from 1979 until his retirement in 2009.
Suzanne Jacob is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Marie Étienne is a French poet and novelist. In 2009, her book Roi des cent cavaliers and now translated into English as King of a Hundred Horseman won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Étienne is the author of eleven books of poems and nine books of prose, which her translator Marilyn Hacker says "could be variously classed as fiction, memoir, and cultural history, some partaking of all three".
André Roy is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
Michel Pleau is a Canadian poet, who was appointed Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in January 2014.
Rachel Leclerc is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Carole David is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Sabine Huynh is a Vietnamese-born French writer, poet, translator, and literary critic.
Martine Audet is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres.
Anne-Marie Desmeules is a Canadian poet from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2019 poetry collection Le tendon et l'os, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.
Claude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
Maya Cousineau Mollen is an Innu poet from Mingan, Quebec, Canada. She is most noted for her poetry collection Enfants du lichen, which was the winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.
