Claude Beausoleil (16 November 1948 – 24 July 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.

[1] Beausoleil studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal and earned a master's degree with a thesis on Hubert Aquin.

In 1972, he began publishing collections of poetry on the sensuality and emotion of words, in addition to focusing on Quebec's unique cultural situation as the last remaining francophone entity in North America.

In 1980, he won the Prix Émile-Nelligan for his poem, Au milieu du corps l'attraction s'insinue.

He was Director of the magazine Lèvres Urbaines, and he also wrote in Estuaire, Europe, and The American Poetry Review.