Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec.
[1] A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne Claire Poirier.
[2] Blackburn and Poirier were Genie Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête).
[3] She was the author of "Le retour de l’âge", a short theatrical piece which was part of the collaborative feminist theatre work La nef des sorcières alongside pieces by Luce Guilbeault, France Théoret, Odette Gagnon, Marie-Claire Blais, Pol Pelletier and Nicole Brossard.
She was married to composer Maurice Blackburn, with whom she collaborated on the libretto for his opera Une mesure de silence,[5] and was the mother of science fiction writer Esther Rochon.