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

Marthe Blackburn Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne ...

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 Radio Canada, where she tied with

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...

. 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

Bibliography

* W. H. New, 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 Canadian women science fiction and fantasy writers Writers from Quebec City 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers Novelists from Quebec {{Quebec-writer-stub