Esther Rochon (née Blackburn) (born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian

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writer. Born in

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, the daughter of screenwriter

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and composer

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, at the age of 16 she won the Governor General First Prize for a short story in the Young Author's contest of

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. Rochon studied Mathematics at the

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

Selected bibliography

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

References

W. H. New William Herbert New (born March 28, 1938) is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at John Oliver Secondary School, where he received one of the top matriculation exam scores in British Columbi ...

, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 983.

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1948 births Living people Canadian novelists in French Canadian science fiction writers Canadian women novelists French Quebecers Women science fiction and fantasy writers Writers from Quebec City 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers {{Quebec-writer-stub