Naomi Fontaine is a member of the Innu First Nation in the province of Quebec, from Uashat, a community with a population less than 5,000. She was an education student when she wrote Kuessipan, her first novel, which she based on her own experience.
David Homel was born and raised in Chicago in 1952. He has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General’s Award for Literature, Canada’s highest literary honor. His translations include The World is Moving around Me by Dany Laferriere, and The Last Genet by Hadrien Laroche.
Award-winning author and literary translator David Homel also works as a journalist, editor and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago in 1952 but left at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and continued his education in Europe and Toronto before settling in Montreal 1980. He worked at a variety of industrial jobs before beginning to write fiction in the mid-1980s. His eleven novels to date have been translated into several languages and published around the world.