Monique Bosco's literary career has been highlighted by two distinctions to date. Her first novel, Un Amour maladroit (1961), met with the critics' approval and won the First Novel Award (U.S.A.), and La Femme de Loth (1970; translated as Lot's Wife, 1975) received a Governor General's Award.

Born to Robert and Stella Ménassé Bosco in Vienna, Austria, Monique Bosco attended school in France until 1948 when she came to Canada. She pursued her studies at the Université de Montréal, obtaining her B.A. in 1950, her M.A. the following year, and in 1953 her Ph.D. Her doctoral dissertation, "L'Isolement dans le roman canadien-Français," explored a theme which would characterize her own novels. In addition to working as a free-lance journalist (1949-1959), Bosco wrote for the National Film Board and for Radio-Canada, had a column in Maclean's magazine, and contributed articles to the...