Arlette Cousture, OC CQ (born April 3, 1948) is a Canadian writer.

She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec.

[4] In the 1980s Cousture wrote a pair of best-selling novels, Les filles de Caleb, about the life of a young teacher in rural Quebec.

[5][6][7] The stories later became the basis of a television series[8][9] and were translated into English.

In the 1990s Cousture wrote a two-volume story, Ces Enfants d'ailleurs, about a Polish family's move to Canada during World War II.