Spatriati - Mario Desiati

Mario Desiati , originally from Martina, Italy, is the author of eleven novels, including his English debut, Spatriati , which received Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize. His novel Il paese delle spose infelici is the basis of Pippo Mezzapesa's film of the same name; his novel Ternitti was a finalist for the Strega Prize. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. He lives in Apulia, Italy. Michael F. Moore is the award-winning translator, most recently, of The Betrothed , by Alessandro Manzoni, hailed as a landmark literary event. His translations range from twentieth-century classics-- Agostino by Alberto Moravia and The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi--to contemporary novels, including Live Bait , by Fabio Genovesi. Moore is the former chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and has a PhD in Italian from New York University. For many years he was also an interpreter at the United Nations and a full-time staff member of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations.