Melikah Abdelmoumen Author

Mélikah Abdelmoumen was born in Quebec in 1972. Between 2005 and 2017 she lived in Lyon, France. She holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Montreal and is the author of many articles and short stories, as well as a dozen novels, nonfiction books and essays, among which Les désastrées (VLB éditeur, 2013) and Douze ans en France (2018). Baldwin, Styron et moi won the 2022 Pierre-Vadeboncoeur Essay Prize. She is editor in chief of the Quebec literary magazine Lettres québécoises. Baldwin, Styron and Me is the first of her books to be translated to English.

Catherine Khordoc is a translator and professor in the Department of French and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.