Régine Robin

Régine Robin (born as Rivka Ajzersztejn; 10 December 1939 – 3 February 2021) was a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, earned a number of awards, including the Governor-General's Award in 1986. She was described by Robert Saletti as "Montreal's grande dame of postmodernism".

Career Régine Robin's published works include La Société française en 1789 : Semur-en-Auxois (1970); Le Cheval blanc de Lénine (1979); La Québécoite (1983), translated in 1989 as The Wanderer (Martin and Beatrice Fischer Prize for Fiction); Le Réalisme socialiste: Une esthétique impossible (1987, Governor-General's Award), and co-founded Montreal's Inter-University Centre for Discourse Analysis and Sociocriticism of Texts in 1990.

Honours In 1988 she was admitted to the Royal Society of Canada. In 1994 she was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France). In 1994 she received the Prix Jacques-Rousseau (Acfas) for interdisciplinary contributions.