Cécile Gagnon

Cécile Gagnon (born January 7, 1936) is a Canadian writer and illustrator living in Quebec.

[1] Born in Quebec City, she received a bachelor's degree in literature from the Université Laval.

She then pursued Italian studies at the Université de Montréal and the Scuola di Lingua e Cultura in Siena.

She contributed to various publications, including Lurelu, Cahiers de la femme, Municipalité and the IBBY Newsletter; from 1986 to 1988, she was editor in chief for Coulicou.

[1][2] Gagnon has been a finalist several times for the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit.

Cécile Gagnon photographed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the Salon du livre de Montréal 2019.