Nancy Louise Huston, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.

[1] Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the city in which she lived until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, where she attended High Mowing School.

Arriving in Paris in 1973, Huston obtained a master's degree from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, writing a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes.

[5] Huston's novel, Instruments des ténèbres, has been her most successful novel yet, being shortlisted for the Prix Femina, and the Governor General's Award.

The next year she was nominated for a Governor General's Award for translating the work into English as The Mark of the Angel.

In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada,[7] In 2006, she received the Prix Femina for the novel Lignes de faille and which, as Fault Lines, has been published by Atlantic Books and was shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize.