Fernand Ouellette is a French Canadian writer. He is a four-time winner of the Governor General's Awards, having won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1970 Governor General's Awards for Les actes retrouvés and at the 1976 Governor General's Awards for Les Bas Canada 1791-1840, changements structuraux et crise, the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1985 Governor General's Awards for Lucie ou un midi en novembre, and the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Les Heures.

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He was born in Montreal on 24 September 1930.
Ouellette's papers are kept at the National Library and Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
PoetryThese angels of blood, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1955Sequences of the wing, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1958The sun in death, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1965; The sun in death (preceded wing Sequences and radiographs), Montreal, Typo 1995In the dark, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 1967Poetry (1953-1971), Montreal, The Hexagon 1972Wanderings, Montreal, Editions Bourguignon, 1975Here, there, light, Montreal, The Hexagon 1977In short, Montreal, Editions Parallel 1979In the night, the sea (1972-1980), Montreal, The Hexagon 1981Awakenings, Obsidian, Montreal, with nine lithographs by Léon Bellefleur, 1982Nella Notte, Il Mare altre poetry, translated from Italian by Antonella Emina Martinetto, Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1986Clocks, Montreal / Seyssel, Hexagon / Champ Vallon, 1987; Typo 1988; Typo 2007Wells of light, trans. English Barry Callaghan and Ray Ellenwood, Toronto, Exile Editions, 1989Beyond the passage, Montreal, The Hexagon 1997Selection of poems (1955-1997), presenting Georges Leroux, Montreal, coll. "the lily", Fides, 2000The unforgettable, Chronicle I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2005The unforgettable, Chronicle II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2006The unforgettable, Chronicle III, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2007The wide presence, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2008The Steep, Volume I, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009The Steep, Volume II, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2009The Absent, Éditions du passage, illustrated with 34 works on paper by Christian Gardair, Montreal, 2010Wake of the addition (choice of poems 1953-2008), preface by Georges Leroux, Montreal, Typo, 2010At the extreme of the time (2010-2012 poems), Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2013Hours, translated from English by Antonio D'Alfonso, Toronto, Buffalo, Lancaster, coll. "Essential translation", Guernica Editions, 2014.Progress towards the invisible, Montreal, L'Hexagone, 2015NovelsYou intensely watched Genevieve, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1978; Introducing Joseph Bonenfant, Montreal, Typo 1990The bright death, Montreal, Les Quinze, 1980; Presentation by Pierre Ouellet, Typo 1992Lucie or one afternoon in November, Montreal, Boreal, 1985