RUSSELL SMITH is a writer, journalist, and translator. The author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, his most recent novel, Confidence, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His work has also been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Awards, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He also writes a weekly column on arts for the Globe and Mail. A Family Affair is his first book-length translation.