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Christine Angot is one of the most provocative and controversial authors writing today in France. Born in 1958 in Châteauroux, Angot studied law at the University of Reims and began writing at the age of twenty-five. Her literary works have received prizes including the Prix France Culture in 2005 (for Les Désaxés and Une partie du cœur), the Prix Flore in 2006 (for Rendez-vous) and the Prix Sade in 2012 (for Une semaine de vacances), which she refused. In 2015 she won the Prix Décembre for her novel Un Amour impossible. Journey to the East of France won the Prix Médicis. In 2024, she directed her first film, Une famille.

Armine Kotin Mortimer, PhD, held a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for 2020, and she was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques in recognition of her distinguished work on behalf of French culture. The author of numerous scholarly publications, she has published translations of six French books: The Enchanted Clock by Julia Kristeva, Mysterious Mozart by Philippe Sollers, An Impossible Love by Christine Angot, Casanova the Irresistible by Philippe Sollers, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death by Julia Kristeva, and Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue by Keren Mock. In addition, twenty-six of her translated excerpts have appeared in literary reviews.

Joan Copjec is professor of Modern Culture and Media and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Copjec was co-editor of October (1981–1992); editor of the Verso book series S (1994–1999); and co-founder and executive editor of Umbr(a) (1995–2013). Her books include Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (1994), Imagine There's No Woman (2002) and Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan (2025). She lives in New York.