Cécile Cloutier

Cécile Cloutier (June 13, 1930 - September 30, 2017) was a Canadian writer and educator.

The daughter of Adrien Cloutier and Maria Lantagne, she was born in Quebec City and studied at the Collège Jésus-Marie de Sillery, at Laval University and at the Université de Paris, going on to earn a doctorate from the Sorbonne and a Master of Philosophy from McMaster University. She studied a variety of languages including Sanskrit and Inuktitut. Cloutier founded the Canadian Society for Aesthetics (Société canadienne d'esthétique). She was a member of the Société des gens de lettres of France and of the PEN club of Paris.

Selected works Cuivre et soies, poetry (1964) anthologie de poésie québécoise contemporaine, poetry anthology (1968), editor Cannelles et craies, poetry (1969) Paupières, poetry (1970) Chaleuils, poetry (1978) Springtime of spoken words, selected poems (1979), translated by Alexandre Amprimoz