Arielle Aaronson translated ‘What Burns’ from French into English. Her translations have been shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award and longlisted for the 2021 Canada Reads book of the year. Arielle lives in Montreal, Quebec with her family.
‘Seven thousand forest fires are currently burning – fires which, under normal circumstances, would never even cross your mind.’
Fiction by Julie Bouchard, translated by Arielle Aaronson.
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