Andrea Bajani

Andrea Bajani (Rome, 1975) is one of the most respected and award-winning novelists and poets of contemporary Italian literature. He is the author of four novels and three collections of poems. His novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins, published in the US by Archipelago and translated by Elizabeth Harris, has brought him a great deal of attention. In just a few months, the book won the Super Mondello Prize, the Brancati Prize, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. His latest novel, Il libro delle Case (The Book of Homes) was finalist for the Premio Strega and the Premio Campiello, and is being translated in seventeen countries, by the most prestigious publishing houses, such as Gallimard, Anagrama, Fraktura, Kampa, Humanitas. He is currently writer in residence at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.