Biography
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Maïa Mutawi is a British Palestinian student who lives in London. She is studying psychology, history of art and art for her A-levels and is currently reading John Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down and an introduction to post-colonial studies. The most influential book she has ever read is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. She is also a guitarist in the all-girl band Lethologica and is training towards her Grade VII singing exam.
Naima Rashid is an author, poet and translator working between Urdu, French, Punjabi and English. She has translated works by renowned Urdu writers Perveen Shakir and Ali Akbar Natiq to critical acclaim. Her published works include Defiance of the Rose, Naulakhi Kothi, and Chicanes. Her fourth book, a poetry collection, Sum of Worlds, is forthcoming from Yoda Press this year. Widely published internationally, her work has been long listed for the National Poetry Competition and Best Small Fictions.
Colin Roust teaches musicology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is a co-editor of The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook (Routledge, 2012). In addition, he has presented his work in journals and at conferences in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland.
Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist and translator. She has written features and reviewed books and art for various newspapers and journals in Mexico, Spain and the UK. Her translations from Spanish include works by Julián Herbert, Pablo Iglesias and Adolfo Gilly. From French she has translated Victor Serge, Ninar Esber and Julia Kristeva among others. Her translation May the Tigris Grieve for You, by Emilienne Malfatto, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024.
Catriona Seth is a British academic and professor of French literature, specializing in the Enlightenment period and particularly in the history of ideas. She was a lecturer at the University of Rouen and later a professor at the University of Nancy II. She is currently the Marshall Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University. In 2018, she received an honorary doctorate for "services to education" from Queen's University Belfast.
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Born in Lille, François Thomazeau grew up in Marseille. While working as a sports correspondent for Reuters in Paris he issued his first crime novel set in Marseille, La Faute à Dégun, in 1995. He became a pioneer of the movement dubbed Marseille crime fiction with Jean-Claude Izzo and Philippe Carrese. He is also a scriptwriter, translator, and publisher. Two of his books on Paris bars and brasseries have been translated into English and he is a regular contributor to The Cycling Podcast.
