Édouard Louis (Author) Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy , History of Violence , Who Killed My Father, A Woman's Battles and Transformations , Change, Monique Escapes and Collapse, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. Tash Aw (Translator) Tash Aw was born in Taiwan and is the author of five novels, three of which have been longlisted for the Booker Prize including his most recent novel, The South . His work has won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an O. Henry Award, and has been translated into over twenty languages. His translation of Édouard Louis' A Woman's Battles and Transformations was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize.