Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943. He has travelled widely and lived in India and Portugal, before settling in his native Tuscany, where he holds the Chair of Literature in the University of Siena. He has long been the foremost Italian champion of Portugese literature and is the translator of Fernando Pesoa.

He is author of considerable ouevre which is published in many languages. For Requiem, which he wrote in Portugese, he was awarded the Italian PEN Club Prize.