Michel Tremblay is a Québécois novelist and playwright.
Gilles Archambault is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada.
Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Francis Jammes was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life. His later poetry remained lyrical, but also included a strong religious element brought on by his (re)conversion to Catholicism in 1905.
Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
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.
Claude Roy was a French poet and essayist. He was born and died in Paris.
Jean-Claude Labrecque, was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada.
Donald Alarie is a writer from Quebec.
Jean Joubert was a French novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Madeleine Monette is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and poet from Quebec.
Serge Patrice Thibodeau is a Canadian writer. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry -- winning at the 1996 Governor General's Awards for Le Quatuor de l'errance and La Traversée du désert, and at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for Seul on est -- and also won the Prix Émile-Nelligan in 1992 for Le cycle de Prague.
Jean-Marc Desgent is a poet, novelist and literary critic. He was a professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit from 1978 to 2011. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Michel Deguy was a French poet and translator.
The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" and "essays" ; it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Buchet, Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.
Charles Derennes was a French novelist, essayist and poet, the winner of the Prix Femina in 1924.
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.
Pierre Chappuis was a Swiss writer, poet, and literary critic.
