Common Life

*The translator describes the author, Stéphane, as, "He usually has a crush on someone, somewhere. He has a perfect bullshit detector, and also immense discipline. Above all, I think of Stéphane as someone who takes his writing (and reading) seriously. He's voracious about reading and ideas, and he's brilliantly smart. Finally, though, he has a wickedly wry sense of humor and a joyful sense of fun. One of my favorite evenings in Paris of all time involved a picnic with friends which ended in Stéphane teaching us all some yoga poses."
*Author is a former French movie critic and editor at Cahiers du Cinéma as well as a former dancer and dramatist for Mathilde Monnier Dance Company who has published eight collections of poetry in french.
*Author has received prizes such as the 2007 Mission Stendhal Award and 2003 Prix de Rome
*Translator has been awarded the Woodberry Poetry Room WPR Creative Grant and received the French Voices Grant twice, including for this book.
*Author has a masters from the Université Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne and bachelor from Université Paris-Descartes
*Translator holds a bachelor from Harvard, masters in film studies from Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, MFA in poetry from New York University and PhD in english from the University of Virginia