The Fat Princess

Mario Girard, who also writes under the name Mario G., has published four novels. Six months a year, he is a carpenter, and in winter, a writer. Mario Girard completed a B.A. at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is married and the father of a young girl.

Susan Ouriou is a literary translator, fiction writer, and conference interpreter with an M.A. in Translation Studies from the Sorbonne University. Her French-English translation The Road to Chlifa was shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General's Award and was awarded an IBBY certificate of honour for translation. She has sat on juries for the Governor General's Award for Translation and the Writers Guild of Alberta annual fiction award.