I Don't Care

About the Author

gota Krist f (Author) gota Krist f was born in Csikvand, Hungary, in 1935. Aged twenty-one, Krist f and her husband and four-month-old daughter fled the Soviet repression of the Hungarian Uprising to Austria and were resettled in French-speaking Switzerland. Working in a factory, Krist f slowly learned the language of her adopted country. Her first novel, The Notebook (1986), won the European Prize for French literature and was translated into forty languages. Krist f's other work included plays and stories as well as The Proof (1988) and The Third Lie (1991), which complete the trilogy begun with The Notebook. She died in 2011. Chris Andrews (Translator) Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He has translated Roberto Bolano, Cesar Aira, and Kaouther Adimi, and received the Valle-Inclan Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translations. Andrews has published two collections of poems, Cut Lunch and Lime Green Chair, for which he won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.