Marie José Thériault

Marie José Thériault (born March 21, 1945) is a Quebec writer, performer and translator.

Her poetry collection Invariance, published in 1980, received the Canada-Switzerland Literary Prize. Her novel Les Demoiselles de Numidie (1984) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction. In 1993, she received the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for her translation L'Oeuvre du Gallois (Wales' Work by Robert Walshe) in 1993 and for Arracher les montagnes (Digging the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath) in 1997. In 1996, she received the Prix Les Mots d'or, awarded by the APFA (Action pour promouvoir le français des affaires), for her translation of Clicking by Faith Popcorn.