Gisele Pineau is a psychiatric nurse and novelist living in Paris. She is considered by many to be one of the canonical writers in the creolite movement in Francophone literature. Her novel
L'esperance-macadam, later translated as
Macadam Dreams (Nebraska 2003), is frequently cited as a masterpiece of French-Caribbean literature.
C. Dickson is a professional translator living in France whose many translations include Pineau's Macadam Dreams and Mohammed Dib's Savage Night, both available in Bison Books editions.