Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer and translator who has written two collections of stories and a best-selling debut novel, The Heart Specialist, long-listed for the 2009 Scotia Bank-Giller Prize. For many years she taught literature at Marianopolis College and for four years led the advanced fiction workshop in the English department of McGill University. These days she works as a translator, primarily of scripts for television and film, but she has also translated books. In 1993, she won the John Glassco award for her translation of the first novel written in French Canada, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Junior's 19th century classic, Le chercheur de trésors (The Influence of a Book).
