Erri De LucaErri de Luca, Italy’s most widely read living author, was born in Naples in 1950. In 1968, he left Naples for Rome where he became a member of Lotta Continua until 1976. He worked as a laborer in Turin, Naples, France, Milan, Catania, and Rome He was a volunteer worker in Tanzania and ran humanitarian aide convoys during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In the spring of 1999, he was in Belgrade to protest NATO bombing of the city. He considers aerial bombing of cities an act of terrorism. He is the author of many books, which have won numerous awards abroad, but not in Italy, where he refuses to submit his books for literary prizes. He is a mountain climber and self-taught linguist, translating the Hebrew Bible and works of Yiddish. Among his books published in English are Sea of Memory (1999), God’s Mountain (2002), Three Horses (2005), The Day before Happiness (2011), Me, You (2011), The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars (2012), The Crime of a Soldier (2013), The Story of Irene (2015), and A Dissenting Word (2015). He is the screenwriter of two films, Di là dal vetro (2011, in which he also stars) and Il turno di notte lo fanno le stelle, which was nominated for an Oscar and won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013. Read More Read Less