Christine Dumitriu Van Saanen (1932[1] – April 2008) was a Romanian-born Canadian writer, educator, engineer and geologist.
[2] The daughter of a Dutch diplomat in Romania, she was born in Bucharest and was educated there and at the Oil & Gas Institute.
[3] In 1992, she founded the Salon du livre de Toronto and served as its director general until 2006.
The annual prize awarded by the Salon du livre was named the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-van-Saanen in 1999.
[2] Van Saanen died in Toronto at the age of 76 from complications related to cancer.