Louise Maheux-Forcier

Louise Maheux-Forcier (June 9, 1929 – February 5, 2015) was a Quebec author.

[1][2] She was born in Montreal and was educated at the École supérieure Sainte-Croix and then went on to study music at the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec.

Her first novel Amadou, published in 1963, explored the then-taboo subject of lesbianism.

[1] Other novels followed: She produced a collection of short stories, En toutes lettres (1980),[1] She wrote a number of dramas that were broadcast on the radio and on television by Radio Canada.

[4] Her teleplay Ariosa was rejected by Radio-Canada in 1973 because of its lesbian themes, but was eventually produced and aired by the network in 1982.