Marlène Belley

{{short description|Canadian poet}}

Marlène Belley (born 1963) is a Canadian poet.{{cite web |url=http://services.banq.qc.ca/sdx/prix/document.xsp?id=0000362747&db=auteur&app=ca.BAnQ.sdx.prix&n=136&col=*&mode=alpha&field=nom_nav&value=.*&&p=7&chpp=20&p=7&dbrqp=list_auteur&qid=sdx_q1 |title=Belley, Marlène, 1963- |work=Prix littéraires du Québec |publisher=Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec}}

She was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec and went on to teach French in Ottawa. Her first collection of poetry Les jours sont trop longs pour se mentir,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&pg=PA102 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |page=102 |editor=New, William H |year=2002 |isbn=0-8020-0761-9 |title=Belley, Marlène}} published in 1995,{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35887408 |title=Editions for 'Les jours sont trop longs pour se mentir' |publisher=worldcat.org|oclc=35887408 }} received the Prix Émile-Nelligan in the same year.{{cite web |url=http://litawards.library.mun.ca/index.php?award=1186 |title=Prix Émile-Nelligan |work=Literary Awards in Canada 1923-2000}}