NICOLAS DICKNER won two literary awards, including the Prix Adrienne-Choquette for the best collection of short stories of the year, for his first published work, L'encyclopédie du petit cercle. Nikolski won three awards in Quebec, one in France, and was the winner of Canada Reads 2010. Born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, he travelled extensively in Europe and Latin America before settling down in Montreal. He currently writes a weekly column for Voir, and is working on his next novel.

LAZER LEDERHENDLER was a three-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award before winning the prize for Nikolski, which also won a Quebec Writer's Federation Award. Mr. Lederhendler lives in Montreal, where he teaches English and film at the Collège international des Marcellines.