Frederika Amalia Finkelstein is a French writer and author of two novels: Forgetting and Surviving . Upon its 2014 release in France, Forgetting was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Isabel Cout is a translator and French teacher in Toronto, Ontario. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they've inherited. This is her first published literary translation. Christopher Elson has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the Dalhousie Review .

He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.