Denis Theriault's first novel, L'iguane (The Iguana), was published to great critical acclaim and won three major literary prizes: the Prix Anne Hebert 2002, the Prix France-Quebec/Jean Hamelin 2001, and the Prix Odyssee 2002 for best first novel. His second novel, Le facteur emotif (The Postman's Round)won the Japan-Canada Literary Award in 2006. Born on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Sept-Iles, Quebec, Denis Theriault is an award-winning screenwriter who lives with his family in Montreal.Liedewy Hawke's translation, Hopes and Dreams: The Diary of Henriette Dessaulles, 1874-1881, won the Canada Council Prize for Translation (now the Governor General's Literary Award for… Translation) as well as the John Glassco Translation Prize. Her other translations include Memoria(Dundurn Press, 1999), House of Sighs(The Mercury Press, 2001), The Milky Way(Dundurn Press, 2002), and The Iguana (Dundurn Press, 2003), both of which were shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation.