Marguerite Andersen
Born in Germany in 1924, Marguerite Andersen lived with her family in Europe, Africa and the United States. After teaching French in several countries, she settled in Canada in 1958, where she taught literature at the University of Guelph in southwestern Ontario. At the age of 58, Andersen published her first essay Mother was not a person (Content Publishing and Black Rose) in 1972. It was the start of a rich literary career: she published some twenty books, for which she won several local, provincial and national literary awards. She writes mainly novels, short stories and poetic narratives, but also essays and some theater. Her writings draw on her life, her three children and her immigrant background to nourish a modern, feminist style. Andersen died in October 2022, aged 97.
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