Esther Rochon

Esther Rochon (née Blackburn, born 27 June 1948) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

Esther Rochon in 2014

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the daughter of screenwriter Marthe Blackburn and composer Maurice Blackburn.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1][2] Rochon studied Mathematics at the Université de Montréal.^{[citation needed]}

She has won the Quebec Science Fiction Fantasy Grand Prix four times.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• En hommage aux araignées — 1974
• L'épuisement du soleil — 1985
• Coquillage — 1987 (translated as The Shell, 1990)
• L'espace du diamant — 1991