Louise Dupré has published twenty books, which received many awards. Beyond the Flames and The Haunted Hand both won the Governor General's Award for poetry. Her play Tout comme elle, staged by Brigitte Haentjens, was produced in French in Montreal and in English in Toronto during the Luminato Festival in 2011. Many of her books have been translated in English or in other languages. Louise Dupré is member of the Academy of Letters of Quebec and of the Royal Society of Canada. In December 2014, she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions to Quebec literature as a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and professor. She lives in Montreal.