# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jovette-marchessault
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:02:00.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jovette-marchessault"
name: "Jovette Marchessault"
slug: "jovette-marchessault"
description: "Jovette Marchessault was a Canadian writer and artist from Quebec, who worked in a variety of literary and artistic domains including novels, poetry, drama, painting and sculpture. An important pioneer of lesbian and feminist literature and art in Canada, many of her most noted works were inspired by other real-life women in literature and art, including Violette Leduc, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Emily Carr, Anaïs Nin and Helena Blavatsky."
tagline: "Playwright working in Quebec (1938–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Photo_of_Jovette_Marchessault.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-02-09"
deathDate: "2012-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.57
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           6.138697333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA"
    title: "جوفيت مارشيسولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovette_Marchessault"
    title: "Jovette Marchessault"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3187177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump