Emmanuelle Pagano has published over a dozen works of fiction, which are increasingly translated into German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish. She has won the EU Prize for Literature among other prizes and lives in the Ardèche region with her family. Jennifer Higgins is a translator, teacher and linguist. Her research has focused on how literary translation may act as a vehicle for influence and innovation between cultures. She has taught translation to undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and Italian to A-level students. Previous translations include Le talisman de la Villette (Strangled in Paris) by Claude Izner, for Gallic Books. Sophie Lewis is a London-born writer, editor and translator from French and Portuguese. Recent translations include Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc (Salammbô), The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Aymé (Pushkin), The Earth Turned Upside Down by Jules Verne (Hesperus) and Héloïse is Bald by Emilie de Turckheim (Jonathan Cape). She is Senior Editor at And Other Stories press, and lives in London.

‘It’s familiar but never banal. Having nothing of the a performance, and everything of a sharing of confidences, it is all of an incredible delicacy.’