Nancy huston biography

Nancy Huston is a Canadian writer who has published award-winning French novels including: Les variations Goldberg (1981),  Cantique des Plaines (1993), La virevolte (1994), and Instruments des ténèbres (1996).

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She lives in Paris and is well-known for her practice of translating her own work into English, so the four titles above have English versions in print. See the bibliography below.

Nancy Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1953.

When she was six her mother left the family. Her father took guardianship of  Nancy, her older brother and younger sister.

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Her stepmother took her to Germany for some months. When she was fifteen the family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, U.S.A. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York and found that she had an aptitude for French and so spend the year 1973 studying in Paris.

During her year in Paris she decided to remain in France, enrolled in the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and completed her MA und