Francesco Pacifico

Francesco Pacifico lives in Rome. He is the author of the novels The Story of My Purity and Class, a New York Times Critics’ Book of the Year. A frequent contributor to La Repubblica and n+1, his work has also appeared in McSweeney’s, the White Review, and elsewhere. He is a founder and senior editor of the literary magazine Il Tascabile. He has translated the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Dave Eggers, Hanya Yanagihara, Ralph Ellison, Chris Ware, Matt Groening, Dave Mazucchelli, and Alison Bechdel.

Elizabeth Harris has translated works by Mario Rigoni Stern, Giulio Mozzi, Antonio Tabucchi, and Andrea Bajani. For her various translations of Tabucchi, she has received an NEA Translation Fellowship, the Italian Prose in Translation Award, and the National Translation Award for prose.