Robin, Regine

Regine Robin is a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Starting her university career in France, she moved to the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1978 where she was professor of sociology until 2004. Her research interests include,
among others, questions of identity, Yiddish culture, questions on collective memory, and culture(s) during the interwar period between World War I and World War II. She received different prizes, like the Prix du Gouverneur général au Canada for her book Le Réalisme socialiste : une esthétique impossible (1986) and le Prix Jacques Rousseau de l’Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences for her whole work. She has published numerous books, among them Histoire et linguistique (1973), Le Discours social et ses usages (1983), Le Roman mémoriel: de l’histoire à l’écriture du hors-lieu (1989), Berlin Chantiers. Essai sur les passés fragiles (2001), for which she was awarded the Grand prix du livre de Montréal; La mémoire saturée (2003) and Nous autres les autres. Difficile pluralisme (2011). Her work also includes prose fiction, such as the novel La Québécoite (1983) and L’immense fatigue des pierres. Biofictions (1998).