Translation of: Un monde sans rivage. Arles: Actes sud, 2019.
Stephanie Smee left a career in law to work as a literary translator. She recently translated Pascal Janovjak's The Rome Zoo (2021). Hélène Gaudy lives in Paris. She was born in 1979, studied at L'École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, and joined a literary group that publishes as the Inculte collective. She is the author of six novels--most recently, Une île, une forteresse (2016)--and a dozen books for children.