Paul Eprile and Catherine Bush discuss Giono’s Fragments of a Paradise at TYPE Junction

Calling all Toronto friends! On November 6th, Paul Eprile, translator of Jean Giono’s forthcoming Fragments of a Paradise, will join Catherine Bush for a conversation and reading at TYPE Junction. There will be a signing to follow this event.

Paul Eprile lives on the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada. HIs previous translations include three novels by Jean Giono (Hill; Melville; and The Open Road) and two by Colette (Chéri and The End of Chéri). Melville was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in 2018. Eprile’s rendition of Stendhal’s Armance is forthcoming from NYRB.

Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), and the forthcoming story collection, Skin (2025). She has been a 2024 Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Germany and teaches at the University of Guelph.