Andrée Yanacopoulo is a Quebec doctor, writer, translator, teacher and sociologist born in Tunis, Tunisia, on November 14, 1927. She was the partner of Hubert Aquin from 1963 to 1977 with whom she had a son Emmanuel Aquin.
Biography.
She studied medicine at the University of Lyon, France, and also holds a master's degree in sociology. She settled in Quebec in 1960. From 1961 to 1964, she was a professor of sociology at the Université de Montréal. She then taught at Collège Sainte-Marie and the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1973, then at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent until 1989.
In parallel, she co-directs with Nicole Brossard for six years the Délire collection at Parti Pris editions and holds several other positions with different publishers.
She wrote a book titled "Signé Hubert Aquin: Surcule sur suicide d'écrivain" ("Signed Hubert Aquin: investigation on the suicide of a writer"), after the death of his spouse. She is editor for her publishing house Vanishing Point.
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