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.
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.
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.
Sylvie Germain is a French author.
Suzanne Jacob is a French Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Gaston Miron was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon. Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement.
Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Nicolas Dickner 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 English editions. His books have been translated into over 10 languages.
Esther Croft is a Quebec educator and writer.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Jeanne-Mance Delisle is a Quebec writer.
The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France.
Angèle Delaunois is a Canadian author born in France and living in Quebec.
Émile Ollivier was a Haitian-born educator and writer living in Quebec, Canada. He was considered one of the most important Haitian writers of his time.
Reine-Aimée Côté is a Canadian writer living in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec.
Marie-Hélène Poitras is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Judy Quinn is a Canadian writer and editor living in Quebec.
Serge Bouchard was a Canadian anthropologist, writer, and media personality. Bouchard studied contemporary life in Canada from an anthropological perspective; his subjects ranged from Innu hunters to Quebec truck drivers. Through his frequent appearances in the media, Bouchard's commentary reached both a popular and scholarly audience. He received the Prix Gérard-Morrisset in 2015 and a Governor-General's Award in 2017.
Corinne De Vailly is a French-born Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Diane Giguère is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
