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Michele Mari is one of Italy's most renowned contemporary writers. He has published ten novels in addition to several short story and poetry collections, and has received prestigious awards including the Bagutta Prize, the Mondello Prize, and the Selezione Campiello Prize. A former professor of Italian literature at the University of Milan, he has translated classic novels by Herman Melville, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, and H. G. Wells. In a survey published by the magazine Orlando Esplorazioni in2015, Mari was ranked the contemporary Italian author most likely to be read by generations to come. Brian Robert Moore has translated A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza, and the work of other distinguished Italian authors. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship,and the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. For And Other Stories, he has already translated Michele Mari's You, Bleeding Childhood, which was the first book by Mari to be published in English.
"""If I were to give a book award to a living Italian writer, man or woman, I'd pick Michele Mari."" --Domenico Starone, I-Italy ""The greatest living Italian writer.""-- Andrea Coccia, Linkiesta ""The charm that Mari exercises on his readers, from the most devoted to the most distracted, is incredible . . . More than anyone else, Michele Mari represents today a model of writer that seems on the point of disappearing--fully literary, lofty, in short, twentieth-century."" --Sara Marzullo, Esquire"
