Nancy Huston

Biography

Nancy Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist born on September 16, 1953, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and later earned a master's degree from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, where she wrote a thesis on swear words under Roland Barthes' supervision. Huston has written primarily in French, translating her own works into English, and has been married to Bulgarian-French historian Tzvetan Todorov since 1991.