Marguerite Andersen has lived in France, England, Germany, Tunisia, Ethiopia and the United States, as well as in Canada. She is a writer, translator, editor, teacher of French, German and of creative writing.

Marguerite Andersen (Staatsexamen, Freie Universität Berlin; Ph.D., U. de Montréal) has studied literature, as well as radio, cinematography and screenwriting. From 1973-1980, she was the chair of the Dept. of Languages and Literatures, at the University of Guelph. From 1986-1988, she held the Jackman Chair for Women's Studies at Mount St. Vincent University, in Halifax. This institution awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1999. Since 1989, she has been working in Toronto, as a freelance translator and as a teacher. She has been teaching various levels of French at the Canadian Forces Staff School, as well as at a private girls school, The Linden School..

PUBLICATIONS

• Paul Claudel et l'Allemagne, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1965, 349 p.
• Mother was not a person, Montréal, Black Rose, 1972, écrits de femmes montréalaises ; best-seller du féminisme des années 70, 253 p.
• De mémoire de femme, Montréal, Les Quinze, 1982, récit, Prix du Journal de Montréal 1983 (lauréat sélectionné par l'UNEQ). 270 p.
• L'Autrement pareille, prose poétique, Sudbury, Prise de Parole, 1984, 94 p.
• Courts Métrages et Instantanés, nouvelles, Sudbury, Prise de parole, 1991. 119 p.
• L'Homme-papier, roman poétique, Montréal, Éd. du remue-ménage, 1992. 150 p.
• Paroles rebelles, avec Christine Klein-Lataud, Montréal, Éd. du remue-ménage, 1992, collection d'articles sur des auteures françaises et québécoises. 334 p.
• La chambre noire du bonheur, roman pour la jeunesse, Montréal, Hurtubise, 1993, 85 p.
• Conversations dans l'Interzone, avec Paul Savoie, roman, Sudbury, Prise de Parole, 1994,
  133 p.
• La Soupe, roman, Sudbury, Prise de parole et Montréal, Triptyque, 1995, Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto, 222 p.
• La Bicyclette, nouvelles pour la jeunesse, Sudbury, Prise de parole, 1997, 89 p.
• Les Crus de l'Esplanade, recueil de nouvelles, Sudbury, Prise de parole, 1998 ; finaliste, Prix Trillium. 221 p.
• Industrial Cathedrals of the North / Les Cathédrales industrielles du Nord, Louie Palu and Charlie Angus, Marguerite Andersen trad., Between the Lines, Toronto, et Prise de parole, Sudbury, 1999. 89 p.
• Bleu sur blanc, récit poétique, Sudbury, Prise de parole. 2000, finaliste, Prix Trillium, 81 p.
• Dreaming Our Space, Toronto, Guerinca, 2003, 26.p Translation of L'Autrement pareille, M. Andersen et Antonio d'Alfonso, transl.
  
• Parallèles, Sudbury, roman, Prise de parole, 2004, 265 p.
• Doucement le bonheur, Sudbury, roman, Prise de parole, 2006.
• Le figuier sur le toit, roman, Ottawa, Éditions de l’Interligne, 2008, 270 p. Prix de lecteurs Radio-Canada 2009, Prix Trillium 2009.
  

Poems and short stories by Marguerite Andersen have appeared in Atmosphères, Arcade, Les Cahiers bleus, L'Express de Toronto, Hysteria, Liaison, Light Works, Littéréalité, Mœbius, Poetry Canada Review, The Pottersfield Portfolio, Rauque, Le Sabord, Stop, Waves, XYZ.

One of her plays, Christiane Pflug : Stations in a Painter's Life was performed at the Factory Theatre in 1998. Another play, written in French, was workshopped by the Toronto Théâtre français and later won a prize awarded by the Ottawa French Theatre La Catapulte. TVOntario and Radio-Québec adapted one of her short stories for television.

She has published articles and book reviews in Atlantis, Canadian Book Review Annual, Canadian Children's Literature, Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Canadian Literature, Canadian Review of Poetry Canada Review, Resources for Feminist Research, The Women's Review of Books, Trois, Recherches féministes, UNESCO Review of Education.

Marguerite Andersen is the editor of the quarterly Virages, a short story magazine in its fourth year of publication.

Her first work of fiction, De mémoire de femme, was republished in 2002, in the Ottawa-based Bibliothèque de la littérature canadienne-française; the second, L'Autrement pareille, was published by Guernica, in 2002 also, under the title Dreaming Our Space.

Marguerite Andersen is a member of P.E.N. Canada, l'Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois and The Writers' Union of Canada. She is the president of the Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français (AAOF).

Address : 605-110 The Esplanade, Toronto M5S 1X9
Phone / fax : (416) 361-5070.
E-mail : marguerite.andersen@sympatico.ca