Born in Montreal, Emmanuel Kattan graduated with a Master's of Philosophy from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. For four years, he served as the Public Affairs Advisor to the Secretary General of the Commonwealth of London and he is now a communications manager at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. In addition to his novel Love Alone, Kattan is the author of Duty to Remember (2002, PUF, University Presses of France) an analysis of the 'politics of memory' in post-Second World War France. He has two teenage sons, Benjamin and Jeremy.