Rémy Charest works as a journalist, writer, and translator in Canada, France, the United States, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He worked for three years as an editor at Quebec City daily newspaper Le Soleil. He is also the author of a book of interviews with famed theatre, opera and film director Robert Lepage, Quelques zones de liberté (Connecting Flights), which was released in English in London (Methuen Drama), Toronto, and Chicago, and in Chinese in Taipei. In 2005, he translated a novel, Clint Hutzulak's The Beautiful Dead End (Point Mort), from English to French.