The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, ANNIE ERNAUX is considered by many to be France’s most important literary voice. She won the Prix Renaudot for A Man’s Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, and the French-American Translation Prize for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Paris.