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Andrée Yanacopoulo is a Quebec doctor, writer, translator, teacher and sociologist born in Tunis, Tunisia, on November 14, 1927. She was the partner of Hubert Aquin from 1963 to 1977 with whom she had a son Emmanuel Aquin.

Biography

She studied medicine at the University of Lyon, France, and also holds a master's degree in sociology. She settled in Quebec in 1960. From 1961 to 1964, she was a professor of sociology at the Université de Montréal. She then taught at Collège Sainte-Marie and the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1973, then at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent until 1989.

In parallel, she co-directs with Nicole Brossard for six years the Délire collection at Parti Pris editions and holds several other positions with different publishers.

She wrote a book titled Signé Hubert Aquin: Surcule sur suicide d'écrivain (Signed Hubert Aquin: investigation on the suicide of a writer), after the death of his spouse. She is editor for her publishing house Vanishing Point.

Publications

  • In the name of the Father, the Son and Duplessis, 1984
  • Signed Hubert Aquin - investigation of a writer's suicide (in collaboration with Gordon Sheppard), 1985
  • Suzanne Lamy, 1990
  • Hans Selye or the Cathedral of Stress, 1992
  • Discovery of multiple sclerosis. The nosographic reason, 1997
  • "The Regroupement des Femmes Québécoises", 2003
  • Henri F. Ellenberger. A life, 2009
  • Simone Monet-Chartrand and Michel: A committed couple, written in collaboration with Paul Labonne, 2010
  • Take note, Boreal, 2013.

Awards

  • Finalist for the Governor General's Award for essay category (1993)

Translations

  • How to love living alone, Lynn Shanan ("Living alone and liking it!"), 1982
  • The Memory, Elizabeth Loftus ("Memory"), 1983

References

  1. about Andree Yanacopoulo in editionsboreal.qc.ca retrieved: 4 November, 2017
  2. "Andrée Yanacopoulo fonds". Library. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  3. "Andrée Yanacopoulo fonds". Library. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. "Andrée Yanacopoulo fonds". Library. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
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