Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for "The Truth about Marie". His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Edward Gauvin was a 2007 fellow at the American Literary Translators Association conference, and received a residency from the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. His translations of Chateaureynaud have appeared in Conjunctions, AGNI, Words Without Borders, Epiphany, The Cafe Irreal, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.