Hélène Pedneault (born 14 April 1952 in Jonquière,[1][2] Saguenay, died 1 December 2008 in Montreal)[3] was a Québécoise writer of many mediums who contributed much to the advancement of the feminist cause[4] and also to Quebec sovereignty and the environment.
[6] She wrote a dramatic play, La déposition, published in 1988, which has been translated into five languages and staged in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Rome.
[7] She documented the history of the women's movement in Quebec in the series "Chronique Délinquante" in the feminist activist magazine La Vie en rose [fr].
[8][11] Pedneault created the radio plays Signé Loranger (1995), Éloge de l'indignation (1996) and Robert Gravel, l'homme qui avait toujours soif (1997), and the television series Sous le signe du Lion (1997) for Radio-Canada.
[2] On 23 May 2003 Pedneault presented a show for the 30th anniversary of the Council for the Status of Women, drawing from three decades of feminism in Quebec.