Antoine Wauters Author

Born in 1981, Antoine Wauters is a Belgian poet and novelist, winner of numerous literary awards including the the Prix Wepler, the Prix Marguerite Duras, and the Prix du Livre Inter for Mahmoud or the Rising of the Waters. The Museum of Contradictions which won the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle is his first book to be translated into English.

Stephanie Smee's translations of contemporary classics have won critical praise and multiple awards. She is the translator of Joseph Ponthus' award-winning novel in verse, On The Line, Notes from a Factory, for which she won the Australian Academy of the Humanities Medal of Excellence in Translation. Her translation of Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother won the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger. She is the winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize for Francoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One's Head.