Christine Renard

Christine Renard was a French writer of science fiction and fantasy.
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. She won the Prix Rosny-Aîné posthumously for the story La nuit des albiens. She was the partner of.

Career

In 1972, Renard published La Fenêtre, a critique of antisemitism in science fiction set in an intergalactic future. 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.