Yvette Naubert

{{Short description|Canadian writer and playwright}}

Yvette Naubert (September 19, 1918 – December 1, 1982) was a Canadian writer and playwright.

The daughter of Jean-Marie Naubert and Theodora D'Aoust, she was born in Hull and received a Bachelor of Music from the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal. From 1946 to 1952, she wrote drama for Radio Canada. After spending some time in the United States, Naubert produced a number of novels:

• La dormeuse éveillée (1965)
• Contes de la solitude (1967)
• L'été de la cigale (1968), which received the Prix du Cercle du livre de France and the Prix David
• Les Pierrefendre (1972)

She was writer in residence at the University of Ottawa in 1980.

Naubert died in Ottawa at the age of 64.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&pg=PA802 |title=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |page=802 |isbn= 9780387201092|last=New |first=William H|date=16 February 2005 |publisher=Springer }}

Île Yvette-Naubert, a small island in the Ottawa River near the Val-Tétreau neighbourhood of Gatineau, was named in her honour.{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/CT/toposweb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=145976 |title=Île Yvette-Naubert |publisher=Commission de toponymie de Québec}} Avenue Yvette-Naubert in Montreal also takes its name from her.{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=292395 |title=Avenue Yvette-Naubert |publisher=Commission de toponymie de Québec}}