Jacques Roubaud is a poet, mathematician, and translator. A member of the Oulipo group, his works include numerous collections of poetry, and books including The Great Fire of London, The Loop, and Mathematics (all Dalkey Archive Press). He has worked as a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European Graduate School, and the University of Paris X.

Bernard Hœpffner (1946-2017) was a French writer and translator. His books include Guy Davenport: l’utopie localisée (Belin, 1998) and Portrait du traducteur en escroc (Tristram, 2018). He translated the works of Herman Melville, James Joyce, Mark Twain, and others into French.