Colombe Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française,
Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.
Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a
New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the
London Review of Books,
The New York Times,
Granta,
Harper's,
Le Monde,
Les Inrockuptibles, and
Frieze, among other publications. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel
The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.
Natasha Lehrer is a writer, translator, editor, and teacher. Her essays and reviews have appeared in
The Guardian,
The Observer (London),
The Times Literary Supplement,
The Nation,
Frieze, and other journals. As literary editor of the
Jewish Quarterly she has worked with writers including Deborah Levy, George Prochnik, and Joanna Rakoff. She has contributed to several books, most recently
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism. She has translated over two dozen books, including works by Georges Bataille, Robert Desnos, Amin Maalouf, Vanessa Springora, and Chantal Thomas. In 2016, she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. She lives in Paris.