Pierre Nepveu is a Montreal critic, essayist, poet and teacher. He has received the Governor General's Award three times--in 1997 for the collection of poems Romans-fleuves , in 1998 for the essay Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde , and in 2003 for Lignes Aériennes . His many other awards include the Québec-Paris Prize, the Prix Victor-Barbeau de l'Académie des lettres du Québec, and the Canada-Swiss Prize. Pierre Nepveu has taught in the Département d'études françaises at the Université de Montréal since 1978. Donald Winkler is a filmmaker and translator. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation and has been a finalist four times. His translation of Daniel Poliquin's La Kermesse [ A Secret Between Us ] was a finalist for the 2007 Giller Prize. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Writer, playwright, director, actor, journalist, historian, and critic, Jean-Claude Germain is a Quebec icon. He taught at the National Theatre School of Canada and was artistic director of Thé'tre d'aujourd'hui (1972-1982). Well-known for his story telling on the radio, he related the year-by-year saga of the history of Montreal from 1642 to 1992 at the morning show CBF-Bonjour, the 350 episodes were ultimately published in three volumes as Le Feuilleton de Montréal<>/i>.