Sylvain Prudhomme Author

Sylvain Prudhomme is considered one of the most exciting contemporary novelists in France. He has been steadily gaining in recognition and popularity over the past three years. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Littraire de la Porte Dore for his novel Les grands, which also won the Prix Georges Brassens in 2014, and was celebrated as one of 2014's best books of the literary season.

Jessica Moore is a Montreal-based author and translator. Mend the Living, Moore's translation of the novel by French author Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She also won a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks). Moore's collection of poems, Everything, now, has been called "a powerful journey through love and loss--serving, ultimately, to unsettle any notion of a boundary between them." She is the former VP for Ontario for the Literary Translators' Association of Canada, a past BILTC participant, a Lannan writer-in-residence, and has appeared at the IFOA and in France at Le Festival VO/VF. Jessica Moore is an author and translator. Her collection of poems, Everything, now (Brick Books 2012), is partly a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks 2012) by Jean-Franois Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation Award. Mend the Living, Jessica's translation of the novel by French author Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and won the 30,000 Wellcome Prize in 2017. Jessica lives in Toronto.