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Ernesto Ferrero, writer, editor, and former director of Turin's Bookfair, has passed away today. In 2000, he also won the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, for the novel N.

Italian author Gianni Celati has passed away at the age of 84 years old. Above all, he was recognised as one of the most important translators in Italy (his 2013 Joyce's Ulysses translation was a true masterpiece).

Legendary historical fiction writer Wilbur Smith died at the age of 88 years old. The Zambian-born author sold more than 140 million books in 30 languages.

Have you ever read anything from this novelist? Apparently she's a big name in South Korea and I was wondering why her name never came up in our discussions.

The winner of 2021 Premio Strega Europeo (a spin-off of the main Premio Strega, awarding European authors that have won a national literary prize in their country) is popular contemporary Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov with his latest novel, Time shelter.

Recently I've heard about this Ecuadorian writer, Mónica Ojeda, and I was wondering if anyone has read her novels. I was especially curious about Mandibula (2018), because this book was acclaimed – at that time – as «one of the novels of the season» by El País. Moreover, it's published in...

Daniele Del Giudice, considered one of the best Italian writers especially among publishing professionals, died at the age of 72. Due to Alzheimer, he retired to private life long time ago and had been culpably forgotten. He would have been awarded today with the Premio Campiello to career...

Italian author Antonio Pennacchi died at the age of 71. He won the 2010 Strega Prize for his novel, Canale Mussolini.

Roberto Calasso, writer and owner of Adelphi, probably the most prestigious Italian publishing house, has died today at the age of 80 years old.

Italian author Paolo Mauresing, best-known for The Lünenburg Variation and other novels about chess, has died at the age of 78.

Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, often described as Vietnam's most influential contemporary writer, has passed away.

The Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet has passed away. A perennial Nobel's candidate, he was also one of the few living author to be published in the prestigious "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", chez Gallimard.

The legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the protagonists of the Beat Generation, has passed away at the age of 101. Here, among his poems, one of my favorites: Big Sur Dreamer In a deep dream I saw her The most beautiful of weird women Now grown six feet tall or over And escorted by...

Hungary’s government ordered a publisher to print disclaimers identifying books containing “behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles”. The government said: «the action was needed to protect consumers from being misled». Apparently the order is not universally mandated, but it should...

Usually, at this time of the year, the Swedish Academy has already opened its archives about the Nobel Prize in Literature from fifty years earlier. This time we are due to learn about the 1970 prize, which went to Alexandr Solzenitsyn, but we haven't heard anything yet. Here you'll find why...

El país del diablo by Perla Suez won this year's Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, a leading Latin American book prize awarded every two years that has previously been awarded to authors like Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Bolaño, etc.

John Giorno, American poet and performance artist, has passed away at the age of 82. https://allenginsberg.org/2019/10/john-giorno-1936-2019/ https://www.artforum.com/news/john-giorno-1936-2019-81022

Andrea Camilleri, Italy's best-loved writer (yes, way more than the much-talked-about Elena Ferrante), has passed away at 93. He was best-known for his detective books starring inspector Salvo Montalbano (the name is a tribute to Manuel Vázquez Montalbán) and he has been the bestselling author...

The winner of this year's Premio Strega, the leading Italian literary prize, it's M, il figlio del secolo by Antonio Scurati, who received 228 votes, more than an hundred more than the runner-up title among the five finalists.