Andrée Yanacopoulo

Andrée Yanacopoulo (14 November 1927 – 27 August 2025) was a Tunisian-born Canadian doctor, writer, translator, teacher and sociologist based in Quebec.

Life and career Yanacopoulo was born in Tunis, Tunisia on 14 November 1927. 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.

Yanacopoulo was the partner of Hubert Aquin from 1963 to 1977, with whom she had a son Emmanuel Aquin. She died on 27 August 2025, at the age of 97.

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