Louise Maheux-Forcier

{{Short description|Canadian writer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Louise Maheux-Forcier

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| birth_date = June 9, 1929

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec

| death_date = February 5, 2015

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| occupation = Novelist, radio and television drama writer

| period = 1960s-present

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé}}

Louise Maheux-Forcier (June 9, 1929 – February 5, 2015) was a Quebec author.{{cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/431192/deces-de-l-auteure-louise-maheux-forcier|title=Décès de l'auteure Louise Maheux-Forcier|work=Le Devoir|date=7 February 2015 |accessdate=March 6, 2015|language=French}}

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. From 1952 to 1954, she studied piano with Yves Nat in Paris. Beginning in 1959, however, she decided to concentrate on writing. Her first novel Amadou, published in 1963, explored the then-taboo subject of lesbianism.W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002; {{ISBN|0802007619}}. Chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422. The novel was awarded the Prix du Cercle du livre de France.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louise-maheux-forcier|title=Louise Maheux-Forcier profile at|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}

Other novels followed:

• L'Île joyeuse (1965) translated as Isle of Joy (1987)
• Une Forêt pour Zoé (1969), received the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
• Paroles et musique (1973)
• Appassionata (1978)

She produced a collection of short stories, En toutes lettres (1980), She wrote a number of dramas that were broadcast on the radio and on television by Radio Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/maheux-forcier-louise-312|title=Maheux-Forcier, Louise|publisher=l'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains|language=fr}} 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.W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002; {{ISBN|0802007619}}. Entry "Maheux-Forcier, Louise", p. 699.

In 1974, she was named writer in residence at the University of Ottawa. She was admitted to the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1982. In 1985, she was named to the Royal Society of Canada. In 1986, she was admitted to the Order of Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/membres/louise-maheux-forcier-38|title=Louise Maheux-Forcier|publisher=Académie des lettres du Québec|language=fr}}