Sylvain Hotte is an award-winning writer of fiction for children and young adults. He was born in Montreal but has lived and worked in Quebec City of fifteen years. His first series Darhan was astoundingly successful. Break Away is the first book of a trilogy HIs first10-book series for young people Darhan tells of the adventures of a young warrior in Genghis Khan's empire. Darhan earned Sylvain Hotte Quebec Science-Fiction and Fantasy Award.
Casey Roberts won the John Glassco Prize awarded by the Canadian Literary Translators Association for his translation of the YA novel Break Away, Jessie on My Mind.
He lives in Montreal.