About the authors
Nastassja Martin
Nastassja Martin, author and anthropologist specialising in Arctic populations, has studied the Gwich'in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. She has written Croire aux fauves (Verticales, 2019), published in English by New York Review Books as In the Eye of the Wild, and Les Âmes sauvages: Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska (La Découverte, 2016), winner of the Prix Louis Castex of the Académie française. In 2023, she became Professor of Habitability of the Earth and Just Transitions at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and she is the director of Tvaian, a documentary based on the experiences of Daria, one of the subjects of East of Dreams.
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Sophie R. Lewis
Sophie R. Lewis is a renowned translator and editor. Working from French and Portuguese, she has translated works by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Emmanuelle Pagano, Mona Chollet, Françoise Sagan and Annie Ernaux, among others. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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