Marceline Loridan-Ivens was born in 1928. She has worked as an actress, a screenwriter, and a director. She directed
The Birch-Tree Meadow in 2003, starring Anouk Aim e, as well as several documentaries with Joris Ivens.
Sandra Smith is the translator of Suite Fran aise and eleven other novels by Ir ne N mirovsky, as well as a new translation of Camus's L'Etranger. She has been awarded the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize and the PEN Translation Prize. She lives in New York.