Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a novelist, screenwriter, and director. Her bestselling novel La femme qui fuit -- inspired by her own grandmother's life as an artist -- was translated into English and titled Suzanne. In French, it won the Prix des libraires du Québec and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction. In English, it was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award in 2018 and Canada Reads in 2019. She currently lives in Montreal. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a novelist, screenwriter, and director. Her bestselling novel La femme qui fuit -- inspired by her own grandmother's life as an artist -- was translated into English and titled Suzanne. In French, it won the Prix des libraires du Québec and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction. In English, it was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award in 2018 and Canada Reads in 2019. She currently lives in Montreal. Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire. Suzanne, her translation of Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s La femme qui fuit, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, longlisted for CBC Canada Reads in 2018, and shortlisted in 2019. She currently lives in Montreal. Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire. Suzanne, her translation of Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s La femme qui fuit, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, longlisted for CBC Canada Reads in 2018, and shortlisted in 2019. She currently lives in Montreal.