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  About the Author

  Photo by Jill Glessing MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS is the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, which she has won four times, Blais has been awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She divides her time between Key West, Florida, and Quebec.

  About the Translator

  KATIA GRUBISIC is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire, and she served as the editor-in-chief of Arc Poetry Magazine. Her collection of poems What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry and was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Brothers, her translation of David Clerson’s Frères, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award.