Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston, born in 1953 in Calgary, marked by her mother's departure when she was six, left Alberta for the United States at fifteen, then settled in Paris in 1973, where she studied under Roland Barthes and married the theorist Tzvetan Todorov. She writes in French and produces an English version of her books herself. Winner of the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1996, the prix du Livre Inter in 1997 and the prix Femina in 2006, an essayist of exile and bilingualism, she lives in France.

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