The Old Man by the Sea - Domenico Starnone

Starnone, Domenico: - Domenico Starnone is considered by many to be Italy's greatest living author. He is the author of fifteen best-selling 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 ). All three of these novels were translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner, Jhumpa Lahiri. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review , the New Yorker , and the Georgia Review . Starnone's Strega Prize-winning novel, The House on Via Gemito (Europa, 2023), translated by Oonagh Stransky, was named a Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors' Choice, and was long-listed for the 2024 International Booker Prize. In 2024, again in Stransky's translation, Europa released The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan , which the New Yorker described as wonderfully off-kilter. Starnone is the recipient of many of Italy's major literary prizes, including: the Strega prize, the Napoli prize, and the Campiello prize.