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Christine Renard

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Christine Renard (February 10, 1929 – November 7, 1979) was a French writer of science fiction and fantasy.[1]

She was born in a small town of Nièvre. She began her studies in Clermont-Ferrand before studying psychology in Paris. Her literary career began in 1962, but was cut short by cancer.[2] She won the Prix Rosny-Aîné posthumously for the story La nuit des albiens. She was the partner of Claude-François Cheinisse [fr].[3]

Career

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In 1972, Renard published La Fenêtre, a critique of antisemitism in science fiction set in an intergalactic future.[1] One of her most famous short stories, Au Creux des Arches, published in 1975, juxtaposed a separatist feminist utopia with the dystopic environmental crisis of the late twentieth century.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Drage, Eleanor (2023-10-13). The Planetary Humanism of European Women's Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible. Taylor & Francis. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-000-92320-9.
  2. ^ Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Davis Publications. 1982. p. 90.
  3. ^ Andrevon, Jean-Pierre. "À la croisée des parallèles". www.noosfere.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.