JONATHAN KAPLANSKY won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux's La vie extérieure ( Things Seen ). His translation of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic by Hervé Dumont was a finalist for the Wall Award from the Theatre Library Association. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte's Like a Hurricane , Hélène Rioux's The End of the World is Elsewhere , and the libretto of an opera by Hélène Dorion and Marie-Claire Blais entitled Yourcenar: An Island of Passions . He has also translated Dorion's Days of Sand . Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Kaplansky now lives in Montreal. HÉLÈNE DORION is the author of more than thirty books, including works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She has won many awards, including a Governor General's Literary Award. She is a recipient of the prestigious le Prix Athanase-David, awarded by the Quebec government for her body of work and contribution to Quebec literature.

A multidisciplinary artist, Dorion regularly exhibits her photographs and presents literary concerts with renowned orchestras. Her poetry collection, Mes forêts , is the first work by a living woman and a Québécoise to be added to the curriculum for France's baccalauréat. Born in Quebec City, Dorion divides her time between Orford and Montreal.