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As a journalist Dominique Conil has for more than a decade reported primarily on Russia and the Aral Sea as well as reporting on prisons with the newspaper Liberation. She regularly collaborates with Michel Butel's L'Autre Journal and, subsequently, with L' venement du Jeudi, DS Magazine, L'Humanite (major reportages) and the Cosmopolitaine program on France Inter radio. In 2008 she received the Inedit Acts-Sud-Le Monde award for her novel Hope for the War published by Actes Sud. She maintains a blog on the online daily Mediapart, for which she has also been a literary critic since 2011. Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix litteraire France-Quebec, and the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Paris.
'The opposite of despair is not hope,' [Mordechai] Anielewicz famously said. 'It's struggle.' That's an apt description of the They Said No series, whose stated mission is to demonstrate 'the importance of standing up for what you know is right.' Perhaps, if these books rally enough young activists to say no to fear and despair, future Politkovskayas and Anielewiczes will be able to lead long and happy lives. --Alan Gratz, New York Times Book Review
