Rami Abou Jamous is a journalist and three-time winner of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents, which pays tribute to those who work in hazardous conditions to provide access to information.

Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris and Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly and Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.