Esther Rochon

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Esther Rochon (née Blackburn) (born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the daughter of a scriptwriter and a composer, at the age of 16 she won the Governor General First Prize for a short story in the Young Author's contest of Radio Canada. Rochon studied Mathematics at the Université de Montréal.

She has won the Quebec Science Fiction Fantasy Grand Prix four times.

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • En hommage aux araignées — 1974
  • L'épuisement du soleil — 1985
  • Coquillage — 1987 (translated as The Shell, 1990)
  • L'espace du diamant — 1991

[edit] References

W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of LIterature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 983.

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