Protagonists
Valerio Magrelli
(Roma, 1957), a writer and poet, has published six poetry collections (of which the most recent is Il sangue amaro, Einaudi, 2014) and four books in prose (including Geologia di un padre, Einaudi, 2013). A tenured professor of French literature at the University of Cassino, as well as a translator, he directed the series «La Fenice», Guanda, and the trilingual series «Scrittori tradotti da scrittori», Einaudi (National prize for translation, 1996). He is a collaborator for Repubblica.