Biographical note

Caroline Lamarche (Liege, 1955) is one of the most important contemporary Belgian authors. She studied RomanceStudies at the University of Liege. Her debut novel Le jourdu chien (Minuit, 1996) received the Prix Rossel. She is theauthor of eight books, including the collection of short storiesNous sommes a la lisiere (Gallimard, 2019) which receivedthe prestigious Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. Katherine Gregor worked as an English as a Foreign Language teacher, press agent, theatrical agent and a few other things before becoming a full-time literary translator from Italian and French, in 2014. She translates fiction, non-fiction and plays. She was on the Premio Strega Jury in 2020. She also created 'The Italianist', a column about untranslated Italian books, for the European Literary Network. Her translation credits include Stefania Auci's The Florios of Sicily (HarperVia), Marion Brunet's Summer of Reckoning (Bitter Lemon), Donato Carrisi's Into the Labyrinth (Little, Brown), and Sylvain Tesson's Berezina (Europa Editions). She is currently writing a non-fiction book. About The Memory of the Air, Katherine says: 'Working with Caroline Lamarche's book is an honour and a joy. Every word, every comma counts. Her focused writing encourages a sense of intimacy with the text. Transforming the book into English feels like embroidering with silk thread the image traced by the author, because only silk of the finest quality and needlework of the highest precision will do'.