About the Author
• Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix Médicis Etranger for
Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for
Requiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature Prize for
Pereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi's works include
The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, and
The Woman of Porto Pim (Archipelago),
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance,
Letter from Casablanca, and
The Edge of the Horizon (New Directions).
• Translator Bios
• Antonio Romani and Martha Cooley's translations of poems by Italian poet Giampiero Neri have been published in AGNI, Atlanta Review, PEN America, A Public Space, and elsewhere.
• Martha Cooley is the author of two novels, The Archivist and Thirty-Three Swoons. Her works of short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in PEN America, The Common, A Public Space, and elsewhere.