Dennis Foon, the author of several novels for young readers, is also a celebrated writer for stage and screen. Life Above All, his adaptation of Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton, won the Prix Francois Chalais at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, made the 2011 Academy Awards long list for Best Foreign Language Film, and earned Dennis a nomination for a 2011 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.