Sherry Simon writes widely about language and memory in cities from Montreal to Barcelona, Trieste, Calcutta, Lviv and Czernowitz. After her prize-winning Translating Montreal (2006) and Cities in Translation (2012) she recently published Translation Sites. A Field Guide-- an exploration of spaces (hotels, markets, museums) whose meanings are shaped by a clash of histories. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec.