Gilles Vigneault is a Québécois 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.
Monique Leyrac, was a Canadian singer and actress who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers.
Suzanne Aubry is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright.
Ezza Agha Malak is a Lebanese-born French novelist, poet, critic and essayist.
Hélène Monette was a Quebec writer.
Louise Dupré is a Quebec poet and novalist.
Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Hélène Rioux is a Quebec writer and translator.
Normand de Bellefeuille (born 31 December 1949, in Montreal) is a Quebecois poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Le poème est une maison de bord de mer.
Dominique Robert is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Geneviève Pettersen is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel La déesse des mouches à feu was published in 2013.
Mona Latif-Ghattas is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Annie Lafleur is a Canadian poet from Quebec. She is most noted for her poetry collection Bec-de-lièvre, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.
Andrée Poulin is an award-winning Canadian writer.
Germaine Beaulieu is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Mireille Levert is an award-winning Canadian writer and illustrator of children's book living in Quebec.
Louise Cotnoir is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Denise Boucher is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Joséphine Bacon, is an Innu poet from Pessamit in Quebec. She publishes in French and Innu-aimun. She has also worked as a translator, community researcher, documentary filmmaker, curator and as a songwriter for Chloé Sainte-Marie and Alexandre Belliard. She has also curated an exhibit at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal, Quebec and teaches at Kiuna Institution in Odanak.
