Andrée Yanacopoulo
Andrée Yanacopoulo (14 November 1927 – 27 August 2025) was a Tunisian-born Canadian doctor, writer, translator, teacher and sociologist based in Quebec. She was born in Tunis, Tunisia, on 14 November 1927. She studied medicine at the University of Lyon in France and earned a master's degree in sociology. She moved to Quebec in 1960.
From 1961 to 1964 she taught sociology at the Université de Montréal. She later taught at Collège Sainte‑Marie and the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1973, then at Cégep de Saint-Laurent until 1989.
She co-directed the Délire literary series with Nicole Brossard for six years and worked with several publishers. She wrote Signé Hubert Aquin: Surcule sur suicide d'écrivain (Signed Hubert Aquin: an investigation into the writer's suicide) after the death of his spouse. She also edited books for her publishing house, Vanishing Point.
Yanacopoulo was Hubert Aquin's partner from 1963 to 1977, and they had a son, Emmanuel Aquin. She died on 27 August 2025 at the age of 97.
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