Nancy Huston is a prize-winning author in both her native Canada and in France, where she has resided since 1973. She is the author of seven novels and numerous works of non-fiction. Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953, she moved to New Hampshire when she was fifteen and was attending Sarah Lawrence College when she travelled to Paris for a year of study. She never left. Huston lives in Paris with her husband, Tzvetan Todorov, a philosopher and writer originally from Bulgaria, and their two children.
