Rimbaud the Son

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE TRANSLATOR

PIERRE MICHON was born in Creuse, France, in 1945. His first work of fiction was published in 1984, and since that time his reputation as one of the foremost contemporary French writers has become well established. He has won many prizes, including the Prix France Culture for his first book, Small Lives; the Prix Louis Guilloux for the French edition of The Origin of the World; and the Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1996 for his body of work. He has also received the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française for his novel The Eleven, the Grand Prix Société des gens de lettres de France (SGDL) for Lifetime Achievement in 2004, and the Prix Décembre (2002) and the Petrarca-Preis (2010).

JODY GLADDING is a poet and translator. The author of three collections of poetry, she has translated over twenty books from the French. She teaches in the MFA Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. ELIZABETH DESHAYS is a teacher, translator, and specialized horticulturalist. She is the author of a study on bilingual education and the translator of Julien Gracq’s La Presqu’ile. Gladding and Deshays won the 2009 Florence Gould French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Pierre Michon’s Small Lives.