Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 21, 1987
• Invested on: October 17, 1988

The recipient of the European Prize of the "Association des Écrivains de langue frangaise" in 1982 for her novel "Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie", this author, essayist and journalist, of Polish origin, has received eloquent reviews for her literary works and has published several commercially successful novels.