Claudia Durastanti

About The Author

Claudia Durastanti is a former Italian Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome, and one of the founders of the Italian Literature Festival in London. She’s written for Granta, Bomb, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the Italian translator for Ocean Vuong and the most recent edition of The Great Gatsby, among others. She is the author of Strangers I Know, the winner of the Premio Pozzale Luigi Russo, the Premio Strega Off, and a finalist for the Premio Strega. She lives in Rome.

Books by Claudia Durastanti

Missitalia

A Novel

By Claudia Durastanti
Translated by Jamie Richards
Three women. Three moments across time.

From international star Claudia Durastanti, Elena Ferrante meets Emily St. John Mandel in a dazzling new novel of Southern Italy, rebels and spies, oil country and the moon, revisionist history and imagined futures.
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