Ann Charney is an award-winning Canadian novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Dobryd was first published in 1973 and was translated into many languages. Her work has been published in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, and Italy. Ann Charney’s other books include Life Class, Rousseau’s Garden, Distantly Related to Freud and Defiance in Their Eyes. She has won Canadian National Magazine Awards both for her fiction and non-fiction and was made an officer of the Ordre des arts et lettres in France. Ann Charney lives in Montreal.