Sheila Fischman 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.

Sheila Fischman is a sought after translator and was awarded the Molson Prize in 2008. Her translation of Jacques Poulin’s My Sister’s Blue Eyes was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, and her translation of Pascale Quiviger’s The Perfect Circle was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Camilla Gibb is a Canadian writer with a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford University. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.