Elizabeth Lemay

Elizabeth Lemay is a Canadian author and columnist born on , in Montreal.

Biography Elizabeth Lemay pursued studies in French literature at the Université de Montréal before working in public relations. She worked for Denis Coderre as a spokesperson. She also served as spokesperson for the Ensemble Montréal party. She later developed a body of written work informed by feminist and activist perspectives.

Career Elizabeth Lemay became notable through her first novel, Daddy Issues, published in 2022 by Éditions du Boréal.

Her work is a continuation of similar authors like Nelly Arcan, Annie Ernaux, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan, Virginia Woolf and Virginie Despentes, to whom she explicitly refers in her analysis of the contradictions and constraints imposed on women. A promotional clip of her interview, addressing male loneliness from a feminist perspective, was removed from social media by Radio-Canada, triggering public debate and reactions. Lemay criticized this decision, arguing that it encourages online harassment campaigns against feminist discourse and reflects a misunderstanding of digital dynamics.

Works Daddy Issues, Éditions du Boréal, 2022, ISBN 978-2764629116 L'Été de la colère, Éditions du Boréal, 2024, ISBN 978-2764628379