Arlette Cousture

Arlette Cousture’s talent for fiction, her gift for creating likeable characters and her honed sense of rhythm infused Les Filles de Caleb (1.5 million copies sold in the French-speaking world) and Ces enfants d’ailleurs, two works later adapted for television. At the beginning of 2012, she published Petals’ Pub, set in late-19th-entury Montréal. In all of her books, Arlette Cousture comments on the importance of women in the history of Quebec. One of her current causes is young people with intellectual disabilities.

Arlette Cousture was named a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec in 2012. She was inducted into the Academy of Great Montrealers in the Cultural category in 1995 and was named a Commander of the Ordre de Montréal in 2016.