Nicola Gardini

Nicola Gardini is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. A novelist, poet, critic, translator, and painter, he is the author of numerous books. One of his recent novels, Lost Words, was awarded the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize and the Zerilli-Marimò / City of Rome Prize for Italian Fiction. Long Live Latin was a bestseller in Italy and has been translated into several languages.

Todd Portnowitz is the translator of the poetry collections Go Tell It to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello and Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio, and the recipient of a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.