Esther Rochon (born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian

Canada

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 science fiction

Science fiction

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Born in Quebec City

Quebec City

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, Quebec

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, 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

Université de Montréal

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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

External links

Alire http://www.alire.com/Auteurs/Rochon.html