Mr. Gauguin's Heart - Hardcover

Marie-Danielle Croteau was born in Quebec, where she studied communications and art history in university. Croteau has worked for both Radio-Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Over the course of twenty years, she has lived in Africa, France, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, and Central America. She has also crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in a sailboat with her husband and her two kids, both born in Africa. During her travels, she wrote her first novel, which was published in 1993. Croteau is now a widely recognized author for both children and adults. She splits her time between Quebec City and Costa Rica.

Isabelle Arsenault is a graphic-design graduate who has applied her skills to illustration. She contributes to magazines and newspapers across the US and Canada, and has been the recipient of major illustration awards such as the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards for Illustration, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and the National Magazine Awards of Canada. Arsenault lives in Montreal, and Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin, the original French version of Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, is her first book.

Susan Ouriou is a Calgary-based novelist, interpreter, and translator of fiction. One of her greatest pleasures is sharing with English readers, young and old, the stories she loves in French and Spanish. A runner-up for the John Glassco Translation Prize for The Thirteenth Summer and two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Translation for The Road to Chlifa and Necessary Betrayals, she has some twenty translations to her credit as well as her own novel Damselfish. Currently, Ouriou is busy writing her second novel.