Best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist Domenico Starnone is considered by many to be Italy’s greatest living author. He was born in 1943 in Naples and currently lives in Rome. He is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including: Ties, a New York Times Editors Pick and Notable Book of the Year, and a Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; Trick, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award and the 2019 PEN Translation Prize; and, Trust, “a short, sharp novel that cuts like a scalpel to the core of its characters” (LA Times). Starnone’s most recent novel to be published in English is the Strega Prize-winning The House on Via Gemito, a Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and New York Times Editors Choice. It was long-listed for the 2024 International Booker Prize. Starnone is the recipient of all three of Italy’s major literary prizes: The Strega prize, the Napoli prize, and the Campiello prize.