Paolo BallardiniPaolo has been travelling "extensively, and with a strong preference for uncomfortable places" since the age of sixteen, and then writing about it. He has lived and worked in Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the United States, ad Asia. He received a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Roehampton, London, and has published two books in Italian: La solitudine di Ulisse (1999) and Passages (2002). Far Beyond the Castle is his first collection of travel stories in English and will be followed by a collection of short fiction based on his encounters. He lives in London. Read More Read Less