Mario FortunatoMario Fortunato was born in Cirò, Calabria, Italy. For three decades he worked as a literary critic for the Italian current affairs magazine L'Espresso. More recently he has worked as a columnist for the German daily paper Suddeutsche Zeitung. He hasalso served as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London. In addition to writing novels such as South (Other Press, 2023), a New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year, he has translated Italian works by Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. Read More Read Less