Régine Robin

Régine Robin (born as Rivka Ajzersztejn to Jewish-Polish parents in Paris, December 1939)[1][2] is a
historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology.[3] Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily
on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, have earned a number
of awards, including the Governor-General's Award in 1986. She has been described by Robert Saletti as
"Montreal's grande dame of postmodernism".[4]

Robin's published works include 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),[2] translated by Stanford University Press in
1992 as Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic; Kafka (1989); L'immense fatigue des pierres (2001,
Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Montréal), a collection of stories; Berlin chantiers (2001, Grand Prix
du livre de la Ville de Montréal); La mémoire saturée (2003); and Cybermigrances : Traversées fugitives
(2004).

Robin holds degrees from the Sorbonne in geography (1962) and history (1963) and doctorates from the
Université de Dijon (1969) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales de Paris (1989). She
began her career as a history teacher in a Dijon lycée (1963–1967) and then lecturer at Université Paris
X, but immigrated to Montreal in 1977.[1] She took up her current post as a sociology professor at the
Université du Québec à Montreal in 1982,[1] and co-founded Montreal's Inter-University Centre for
Discourse Analysis and Sociocriticism of Texts in 1990.[3]

Honours
In 1988 she was admitted to the Royal Society of Canada.[2]
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.[2]

References
1. Elizabeth, Haldane Sawtelle (2007). Spaces of Belonging: Home, Culture and Identity in
20th Century French Autobiography. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-2283-3.
2. Greenstein, Michael (2004). Contemporary Jewish writing in Canada: an anthology (https://
books.google.com/books?id=hLN0O5JyeXQC&pg=PA81). Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press. p. 81. ISBN 0-8032-2185-1.
3. "Régine Robin" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211058/http://cri.histart.umontreal.c
a/cri/fr/cdoc/fiche_personne.asp?id=11179). Centre de recherche sur l'interimédialité.
Archived from the original (http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/cdoc/fiche_personne.asp?id=1
1179) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
4. Claudia Gronemann (2006). Les enjeux de l'autobiographique dans les littératures de
langue française: du genre à l'espace, l'autobiographie postcoloniale, l'hybridité (https://boo
ks.google.com/books?id=7DjXGAVGbeoC&pg=PA100). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 100.
Retrieved 22 December 2010. "grande dame montréalaise de la postmodernité"
Further reading
Akane Kawakami, Walking Underground: Two Francophone Flâneurs in Twenty-First-
Century Tokyo, in L'Esprit créateur, Vol. 56, Number 3, Fall 2016, Johns Hopkins University
Press, pp. 120–133.
Review by Danielle Dumontet: Régine Robin, Nous autres, les autres: difficile pluralisme, at
Les éditions du Boréal, Montréal 2011, in Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2014, ISSN 0944-
7008 (https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0944-7008) pp 200 – 203 online (htt
p://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ZKS_2014_9_Rez.pdf) (in
French)
Andrea Schorsch: Grenzgänge, Grenzüberschreitungen, Auflösung von Grenzen. Kulturelle
Identität im innerkanadischen Vergleich: Mordecai Richler und Régine Robin. Kovac,
Hamburg 2005 (=Thesis Universität Bonn, 2004) In German
Caroline Désy, Véronique Fauvelle, Viviana Fridman, Pascale Maltais: Une oeuvre
indisciplinaire. Mémoire, texte et identité chez Régine Robin. Presses Université Laval,
2007

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