Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel is a science-fiction author who was born in Quebec City, Canada, and raised in a small Quebec town called L'Ancienne-Lorette. He earned a B.A. in linguistics from Université de Montréal in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2003. He is currently Director of translation services and a software engineer for a Montreal company. He is also a certified translator. Neuvel's main interests are word-based morphology, computational morphology, as well as formal and lexical semantics, and most of his work focuses on a formal characterization of polysynthesis, compounding and agglutination in word-based morphological terms. Neuvel lives with his son Théodore, and a cat, President Laura Roslin. His personal interests include robotics as well as science-fiction in all shapes and sizes. He's also obsessed with Halloween and is currently building a working R2-D2 replica.