Poet, novelist, short story writer and essayist born in Montreal, Francis Catalano won the Quebecor Prize of the Trois-Rivieres International Poetry Festival for Qu'une lueur des lieux (2010) and the La Metropole Prize of Excellence for Climax (2022). As a translator of Italian poetry, he won the John Glassco Prize in 2006 for Instructions pour la lecture d'un journal de Valerio Magrelli. Jonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator of French in Montreal and won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's Things Seen and was shortlisted for the David Booth Award for Jonathan Becotte's Like a Hurricane. He has also translated works Helene Dorion, Lise Gauvin, Louis- Philippe Hebert, Helene Rioux and Lise Tremblay.