The Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (English: Québec Union of Writers) is a professional union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 of writers in Québec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Founded on March 21, 1977 by some 50 writers following th leadership of Jacques Godbout

Jacques Godbout

Jacques Godbout, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler , Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.-Biography:Born in...

, it represents today some 1,200 writers (poets, novelists, drama authors, essayists, authors of scientific and practical works). Its stated mission is to promote Québec literature

Quebec literature

-16th and 17th centuries:During this period, the society of New France was being built with great difficulty. The French merchants contracted to transport colonists did not respect their end of the bargain, and the French and their Indian allies were at war with the Iroquois, allied to the English...

 and defend the social and economic rights of persons of the literary profession.

Board of directors

• Stanley Péan, president
• Danièle Simpson, vice-president
• Sylvain Campeau, secretary-treasurer
• Sylvain Meunier, administrator
• François Jobin, administrator
• Nadia Ghalem, administrator
• Renaud Longchamps, administrator and representative of regions outside Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
  

External links

• Web site (French only)
• List of members