Nancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
This is an article about literature in Quebec.
Lise Bissonnette is a Canadian writer and journalist.
Marie-Claire Blais 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, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
Élise Turcotte 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 at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989.
Laurence Charlotte Leboeuf is a Canadian actress.
Léa Pool C.M. is a Canadian and Swiss filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have won significant awards including the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and she was the first woman to win the prize for Best Film at the Quebec Cinema Awards. Pool's films often opposed stereotypes and refused to focus on heterosexual relations, preferring individuality.
Suzanne Jacob is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Francine Pelletier is a Canadian science fiction writer, whose work often features strong female protagonists. She has been a winner of several literary prizes for science fiction, including the Prix Aurora Award.
Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon was a Canadian writer, who was a prominent figure in Quebec literature.
Anne Émond is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
Louise Maheux-Forcier was a Quebec author.
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.
Suzanne Aubry is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Montreal.
Sophie Deraspe is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary The Amina Profile, an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari hoax of 2011. She had previously written and directed the narrative feature films Missing Victor Pellerin in 2006, Vital Signs in 2009, The Wolves in 2015,
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novelist.
Marie-Hélène Poitras is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Anne Élaine Cliche is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Sylvie Drapeau is a Canadian actress and writer from Baie-Comeau, Quebec.
Chasse à l'homme is a novel written by Canadian author Sophie Létourneau, published in 2020 by La Peuplade. It won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction.
