Meeting: On collaborative translation

Shira Abramovich grew up between the United States and Israel, and now lives in Montreal. She writes and translates poetry while pursuing a PhD at McGill University, where she studies the intersection of languages, written forms, and computer science. Her poems in English have been published in literary journals such as Crashtest, Polyphony HS, and The Adroit Journal. Her poetic work has also received the Claudia Ann Seaman Award and the Edwin M. Honig Memorial Prize.

Lénaïg Cariou is an artist-researcher, translator, and poet. She has lived in France, the United States, and Germany. Alongside a PhD in contemporary poetry at Université Paris 8, she co-directs the new “Poésie Commune” collection at MF publishing house. Her first two poetry books, À main levée (LansKine) and La poésie n’est pas une bonne fille (Art&Go, with Maxime Hortense Pascal and Liliane Giraudon), were published in 2024. She is associate author at the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse in 2025. Her work unfolds at the intersection of poetry and visual arts.

Lorrain Voisard has worked in various jobs. He began in a fast-food restaurant, then in the fields. In 2018, he spent six months working in a slaughterhouse in French-speaking Switzerland.For the past twelve years, he has worked as a gardener, while also studying French and English literature, then translation, at university.His powerful debut story, Au cœur de la bête, a work at the crossroads of novel and documentary, draws on his experience in the slaughterhouse and was awarded the 2024 RTS Audience Prize.

Anne-Lise Remacle lives in Brussels. Formerly a children's bookseller, she is now a journalist (Focus Vif, Le Carnet & Les Instants, Karoo) and moderator of literary events. She is particularly interested in short form, off-format, poetry and transmedia.