Sylvain Hotte is an award-winning writer of fiction for young adults and children. He was born in Montreal to an Innu mother and a Québécois father and now lives in Quebec City. His first series Darhan was astoundingly successful. POWER FORWARD is the second book in the series that began with Break Away, 1 JESSIE ON MY MIND. He is now writing adult fiction.
Casey Roberts is a Montreal literary translator originally from the United States.
He won the John Glassco Prize awarded by the Canadian Literary Translators Association for his translation of the BREAK AWAY 1, JESSIE ON MY MIND. The Jury wrote: "In this young adult novel about hockey, love and the wilderness, the translator met the challenge of rendering the teenage narrator's lively and quirky voice in a faithful yet inventive idiom."
He won the John Glassco Prize awarded by the Canadian Literary Translators Association for his translation of the BREAK AWAY 1, JESSIE ON MY MIND. The Jury wrote: "In this young adult novel about hockey, love and the wilderness, the translator met the challenge of rendering the teenage narrator's lively and quirky voice in a faithful yet inventive idiom."
