Andrea Tarabbia is a writer and teaches storytelling at the Scuola Holden. He graduated in foreign literatures at the University of Milan and holds a PhD in literary theory from the University of Bergamo, where he also worked as a researcher in comparative literature. He is the author of the following novels: La calligrafia come arte della guerra (Transeuropa, 2010), Marialuce (Zona, 2011), Il demone a Beslan (Mondadori, 2011), La ventinovesima ora (Mondadori, 2013), and Il giardino delle mosche (Ponte alle grazie, 2015). His other publications include the edition and translation of Michail Bulgakov’s Diavoleide (Voland, 2012), the essays La patria non esiste (Il Saggiatore, 2011) and Il cimitero degli anarchici (Franco Angeli, 2012), and the reportage La buona morte (Manni, 2014).

Italian