Paul Colize is a Belgian novelist who was born in Brussels in 1953. He is the author of ten novels including Back Up, which was shortlisted for the Prix Victor-Rossel and the Prix Sain-Maur en Poche. He lives in Waterloo, Belgium. Louise Rogers Lalaurie translates fiction and literary non-fiction from French. She read English Literature and Art History at Queens’ College, Cambridge and worked as an editor and writer in London before moving to France in the early 1990s. Her translation of Gabrielle Wittkop’s novella Murder Most Serene, set in 18th-century Venice, was shortlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award.