Hélène Rioux (born January 12, 1949) is a

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writer and translator. She was born in

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and was educated at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, going on to study Russian at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

. Her stories have been published in various periodicals such as ''XYZ'', ''Moebius'', ''Arcade'' and ''Possibles''. Rioux has also written a literary column for the ''Journal d'Outremont''. She has translated works by a number of Canadian authors into French, including works by

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, Julie Keith, Wayson Choy,

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, Taras Grescoe,

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and

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. Rioux received a Quebec Writers' Federation Award for her translation of ''

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'' by

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. She was also a finalist for the same award for her translation of ''The Memory Artists'' by

Jeffrey Moore Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the University of Paris (post-1970), Sorbonne and the ...

(''Les artistes de la Mémoire''). Her novels have been translated into English, Spanish and Bulgarian.

Selected works

Source: * ''Les Miroirs d'Éléonore'', novel (1990), finalist for the

Governor General's Award for French-language fiction The Governor General's Award for French-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in French. It is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each ...

and for the Grand Prix littéraire from the

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* ''Chambre avec baignoire'', novel (1992), won the Grand Prix littéraire from the ''Journal de Montréal'' and the Prix de la * ''Pense à mon rendez-vous'' (1994) * ''Mercredi soir au bout du monde'', novel (2007), received the and the

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References

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