Michèle Marineau (born 1955) is a Canadian writer and translator living in Quebec.
[1] She was born in Montreal and studied medicine, the history of art and translation at the Université de Montréal.
She published her first novel Cassiopée ou l'été polonais in 1988; it received the Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature.
Her 1992 novel La Route de Chlifa received the Prix Alvine-Bélisle [fr], the Prix 12/17 Brive-Montréal [fr] and a Governor General's Literary Award.
It was translated into English in 1995 as The Road to Chlifa, also appearing in Danish and in Dutch.