Andrée Yanacopoulo is a Quebec doctor, writer, translator, teacher and sociologist born in Tunis, Tunisia, on November 14, 1927.
She studied medicine at the University of Lyon, France, and also holds a master's degree in sociology.
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.