MARIA GRAZIA CALANDRONE is a poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and RAI host. She writes for Il Corriere della Sera and 7. She has written numerous books of poetry for Mondadori “Specchio” and Crocetti. Her prose works include a novel about her adoptive mother, Splendi come vita (Ponte alle Grazie 2021), which was a finalist for the Strega Prize, the Trio Strega Giovani Prize, and the Bergamo and Comisso awards.ANTONELLA LETTIERI is a London-based translator working into English and Italian. She was the 2023 National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentee for Italian and worked with Howard Curtis. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote and she was awarded the first prize in the 2023 John Dryden Translation Competition.

‘Calandrone’s new work establishes her as a high-quality novelist and a masterful storyteller of Italy in the 50s and 60s.’ Franco Buffoni, Strega Prize 2023

MARIA GRAZIA CALANDRONE is a poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and RAI host. She writes for Il Corriere della Sera and 7. She has written numerous books of poetry for Mondadori “Specchio” and Crocetti. Her prose works include a novel about her adoptive mother, Splendi come vita (Ponte alle Grazie 2021), which was a finalist for the Strega Prize, the Trio Strega Giovani Prize, and the Bergamo and Comisso awards.ANTONELLA LETTIERI is a London-based translator working into English and Italian. She was the 2023 National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentee for Italian and worked with Howard Curtis. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote and she was awarded the first prize in the 2023 John Dryden Translation Competition.

‘Calandrone’s new work establishes her as a high-quality novelist and a masterful storyteller of Italy in the 50s and 60s.’ Franco Buffoni, Strega Prize 2023

MARIA GRAZIA CALANDRONE is a poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and RAI host. She writes for Il Corriere della Sera and 7. She has written numerous books of poetry for Mondadori “Specchio” and Crocetti. Her prose works include a novel about her adoptive mother, Splendi come vita (Ponte alle Grazie 2021), which was a finalist for the Strega Prize, the Trio Strega Giovani Prize, and the Bergamo and Comisso awards.ANTONELLA LETTIERI is a London-based translator working into English and Italian. She was the 2023 National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentee for Italian and worked with Howard Curtis. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote and she was awarded the first prize in the 2023 John Dryden Translation Competition.

‘Calandrone’s new work establishes her as a high-quality novelist and a masterful storyteller of Italy in the 50s and 60s.’ Franco Buffoni, Strega Prize 2023