The The Memory of the Air

About Caroline Lamarche

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''.