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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was a Sicilian nobleman, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. In the final two and a half years of his life he produced several drafts of one novel, three short stories (one conceived as the first chapter of a second, unfinished novel), and a childhood memoir. None of these were published in his lifetime, but two years after his death his great novel,
The Leopard, won the Strega Prize and became a worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-three languages.
Stephen Twilley is an assistant editor at NYRB Classics and an associate editor at the online review Public Books. His translations from the Italian include Francesco Pacifico’s The Story of My Purity and Marina Mander’s The First True Lie.
Marina Warner’s studies of religion, mythology, and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, From the Beast to the Blonde, and No Go the Bogeyman. In 2013 she co-edited Scheherazade’s Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights. A Fellow of the British Academy, she is also a professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.