GIULIANO DA EMPOLI is an Italian and Swiss writer and journalist. He was Deputy Mayor for Culture in Florence and a senior advisor to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Since the publication of his first book at the age of twenty-two, he has published eleven more books on the economy and its social and political consequences. The Wizard of the Kremlin won the Grand Prix du Roman and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize.

WILLARD WOOD grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. His recent translations include Camille de Toledo’s Theseus, His New Life (Other Press, 2023) and Patrick Boucheron’s Trace and Aura (Other Press, 2022).