Yannis Tsirbas

Yannis Tsirbas is a novelist and playwright born in Athens, Greece, in 1976. He was co-screenwriter of the award-winning movie Amerika Square, which was based on Vic City Express. International journalist and award-winning literary translator Fred A. Reed is also a respected specialist on politics and religion in the Middle East. After several years as a librarian and trade union activist at the Montreal Gazette, Reed began reporting from Islamic Iran in 1984. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for translation.