WRITER

Nancy Huston

1953 - Today

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Nancy Louise Huston, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Huston has received more than 125,988 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nancy Huston is the 4,632nd most popular writer (down from 4,399th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Canada (down from 321st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Round Anvil Rock
1903
Cantique des plaines
Family, Fiction
1993
Empreinte de l'ange
Jews, Influence, Fiction
1999
Instruments des ténèbres
Translations into English, French-Canadian fiction
1996
The mother knot
Mothers, Mother and child, Motherhood
1976
Dolce agonia
2001
Dolce agonia
Thanksgiving Day, Fiction, Friendship
"Poet Sean Farrell is the host for an unforgettable Thanksgiving dinner in a New England college town. Among his eleven guests are fellow writers and professors, former lovers, an artist-turned-housepainter, a bread maker, a secretary, and a beautiful young woman with an infant son and a haunting past. Not all of them know one another when the evening begins, but an impassable snowstorm will lead to a long night of exploration and discovery."--BOOK JACKET.
2001
Round Anvil Rock
Fiction, romance, historical, general, Kentucky, fiction, Ohio, fiction
1903
Cantique des plaines
Family, Fiction, Fiction, general
1993
The mother knot
Mothers, Mother and child, Motherhood
1976
Instruments des ténèbres
Translations into English, French-Canadian fiction, Fiction, general
1996
Empreinte de l'ange
Jews, Influence, Fiction
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nancy Huston ranks 4,632 out of 7,302. Before her are Friedrich von Hagedorn, James Agee, Oğuz Atay, Adam Asnyk, Alexander McCall Smith, and Ludwig Bechstein. After her are W. S. Gilbert, Molla Vali Vidadi, Kostas Karyotakis, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Lin Shu, and Zane Grey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Nancy Huston ranks 286. Before her are Can Xue, Hamilton Mourão, Artūras Paulauskas, Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, Ken Davitian, and Nicolas Schmit. After her are Taner Akçam, Glykeria, Mary Harron, Józef Młynarczyk, Patti Scialfa, and Carole André.

Others Born in 1953

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Nancy Huston ranks 324 out of 1,622. Before her are Edge (1973), John McCrae (1872), John Abbott (1821), Yassine Bounou (1991), Pom Klementieff (1986), and Seth Rogen (1982). After her are Percy Williams (1908), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Steven Erikson (1959), David Suzuki (1936), Susan Clark (1943), and Mary Harron (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Nancy Huston ranks 22. Before her are Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Robin Sharma (1965), Mordecai Richler (1931), Laurence J. Peter (1919), Duncan Regehr (1952), and Émile Nelligan (1879). After her are Steven Erikson (1959), Michel Tremblay (1942), Naomi Klein (1970), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Harold Russell (1914), and Grant Allen (1848).

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