Alison Anderson is the author of two novels, Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink. Her translations include Leila Marouane’s Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris; two novels by Sélim Nassib; Amélie Nothomb’s Tokyo Fiancée, Lifeform, and Hygiene and the Assassin; and Muriel Barbery’s Elegance of the Hedgehog and Gourmet Rhapsody. She lives near Lausanne, Switzerland.