About the Author

Diego Marani was born in Ferrara in 1959. He works as a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels.
Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper about current affairs in Europanto, a language that he has invented. He has also published in France a collection of short stories in Europanto.
In Italian he has published six novels, the most recent being l'Amico della Donna Judith Landry was educated at Somerville College, Oxford where she obtained a first class honours degree in French and Italian.She combines a career as a translator of works of fiction, art and architecture with part-time teaching.

Her translations for Dedalus are: The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte, Paris Noir: The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague by Sylvie Germain and Smarra & Trilby by Charles Nodier.