Derek Coltman Translator & Author

Marie-Claire Blais is one of Canada's best-known authors whose books include Deaf to the City, Thunder and Light, and Wintersleep. She has received a wide variety of national and international prizes, including Prix France-Canada, Prix Athanase-David, Governor General's Literary Award, the W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, Prix Médicis, Prix d'Italie, and Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco. She lives in Key West, Florida.

Derek Coltman has worked as a translator for more than five decades and has translated many of the most recognized contemporary French authors.

David Lobdell has worked as a translator of French into English since the 1970s.

Barry Callaghan is a journalist, a poet, a fiction writer, and an anthologist. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.