Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston was born in Canada in 1953. She grew up in Germany and the USA, and after studying in Cambridge and New York, she moved to Paris in 1973, where she graduated from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales with a thesis on linguistic taboo/taboos, under the supervision of Roland Barthes. She began writing in French for various newspapers and magazines. For her first novel, „Goldberg varijacije“, she received the Contrepoint Prize in 1981; she subsequently alternated between writing novels, essays, books for children, and screenplays. Since 1993 and the publication of the novel „Pjesma s ravnica“, for which she was awarded Canada’s most prestigious literary prize – the Governor General’s Award – she has also written in her mother tongue and translates her own works in both directions. She achieved great success with the novel „Rasjedi“: in 2006, she received the Prix Femina and the French Television Prize for the best novel of 2006, after which the book remained on the bestseller lists for months (more than half a million copies were sold), and it has been translated into approximately forty languages.