Dino Buzzati (1906– 1972) was an Italian journalist, artist, and author. A gifted artist as well as writer, Buzzati was the author of five novels, including The Stronghold and A Love Affair (NYRB Classics); numerous short stories and poems; a children’ s book; and a comic book, Poem Strip (NYRB Classics).
Anne Milano Appel has translated nearly four dozen books from Italian into English, including Giovanni Arpino’ s Scent of a Woman; Pope Francis’ s God is Young; Claudio Magris’ s Blindly, which won the inaugural Italian Prose in Translation Award; and, most recently, Claudia Petrucci’ s The Performance. She lives in the Bay Area.