Madeleine Gagnon (born July 27, 1938) is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
From 1969 to 1982, she taught literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
[3] She wrote for the magazines Chroniques (which she founded with Patrick Straram), Liberté, La Nouvelle Barre du jour, Possibles, Osiris, Estuaire, Urgences, Passages, and Actuels.
In 1986, her book Les Fleurs du Catalpa received the Grand Prix de poésie from the Journal de Montréal, Her poetry collection Chant pour un Québec lointain received the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, the Prix Arthur-Buies from the Salon du livre de Rimouski and the Prix Artquimédia from the town of Amqui.
Gagnon was named a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1987.