Catherine Leroux is a Montreal novelist, screenwriter, translator and publisher. The author of five books, she has been a finalist and winner of several literary prizes, including the Prix France-Québec for Le mur mitoyen and the Prix Jacques-Brossard for L’avenir, which also won the Canada Reads competition in its English version. Her latest novel, Peuple de verre, is a work of anticipation focusing on the housing crisis.