Frederika Amalia Finkelstein is a French writer and author of two novels: Forgetting and Surviving. Upon its 2014 release in France, Forgetting was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Both have been published in English translation by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson (Deep Vellum).Isabel Cout is a translator in Montreal, Quebec. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they’ve inherited.Christopher Elson has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the Dalhousie Review. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.

"Finkelstein favors the direct approach, a brutality of language and subject in order to confront the reader, sometimes to the point of discomfort, with the facts and often ambivalent feelings that they have provoked, in order to demonstrate their violence." —Le Monde"We will have understood, this novel is excessive. Its excess is not only due to the theme, its writing is totally controlled, mastered, without a single exclamation, without a single moment of abandonment to feeling or pathos." —En Attendant Nadeau"Survivre is a brilliantly composed novel, as a Girondin writer would say, composed with the essence of the author’s  youth and the knowledge of all the books read by her. This indestructible, perpetual memory of thousands of pages that resist time and assassins." —La Cause Littéraire

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein is a French writer and author of two novels: Forgetting and Surviving. Upon its 2014 release in France, Forgetting was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Both have been published in English translation by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson (Deep Vellum).Isabel Cout is a translator in Montreal, Quebec. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they’ve inherited.Christopher Elson has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the Dalhousie Review. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.

"Finkelstein favors the direct approach, a brutality of language and subject in order to confront the reader, sometimes to the point of discomfort, with the facts and often ambivalent feelings that they have provoked, in order to demonstrate their violence." —Le Monde"We will have understood, this novel is excessive. Its excess is not only due to the theme, its writing is totally controlled, mastered, without a single exclamation, without a single moment of abandonment to feeling or pathos." —En Attendant Nadeau"Survivre is a brilliantly composed novel, as a Girondin writer would say, composed with the essence of the author’s  youth and the knowledge of all the books read by her. This indestructible, perpetual memory of thousands of pages that resist time and assassins." —La Cause Littéraire

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein is a French writer and author of two novels: Forgetting and Surviving. Upon its 2014 release in France, Forgetting was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Both have been published in English translation by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson (Deep Vellum).Isabel Cout is a translator in Montreal, Quebec. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they’ve inherited.Christopher Elson has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the Dalhousie Review. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.

"Finkelstein favors the direct approach, a brutality of language and subject in order to confront the reader, sometimes to the point of discomfort, with the facts and often ambivalent feelings that they have provoked, in order to demonstrate their violence." —Le Monde"We will have understood, this novel is excessive. Its excess is not only due to the theme, its writing is totally controlled, mastered, without a single exclamation, without a single moment of abandonment to feeling or pathos." —En Attendant Nadeau"Survivre is a brilliantly composed novel, as a Girondin writer would say, composed with the essence of the author’s  youth and the knowledge of all the books read by her. This indestructible, perpetual memory of thousands of pages that resist time and assassins." —La Cause Littéraire