The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a complex world, haunted by her memory of him as he is haunted now by her projected self, navigating an era awash in uncertainty and unease. Imbued with both wonder and disquiet, it is an aging poet's celebration of childhood, as well as a meditation on his own "future absence." There follows his celebration of C, the woman with whom Nepveu shares his nights and days. These are love poems dedicated to a companion who has aided him in finding "new phrases that reformulate the impossible." The culmination of a brilliant career, translated into fluent and thrilling English by Donald Winker, The Four-Doored House is Nepveu's most enduring work yet. (From Vehicule Press)

Pierre Nepveu has received the Governor General's Award three times. His other awards include the Québec-Paris Prize, the Prix Victor-Barbeau de l'Académie des lettres du Québec and the Canada-Swiss Prize. Nepveu was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2012. Under its original title, L'espace caressé par ta voix, The Four-Doored House was a finalist for The Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal in 2020.

Donald Winkler is a filmmaker and translator from Montreal. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation for The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby-Boomers by François Ricard, Partitia for Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux and The Major Verbs by Pierre Nepveu. Two books translated by him have been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin in 2007 and Arvida by Samuel Archibald in 2015 while his translation of Boundary, originally written and published in French by Andrée A. Michaud, was longlisted in 2017.