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Livia Franchini
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Livia Franchini

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Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy. Her recent publications include the novel Shelf Life (Doubleday, 2019), her English-language translation of Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky Is Falling (Another Gaze, 2023), and the anthology Too Little / Too Hard: Writers on the Intersections of Work, Time and Value, co-edited with Lucy Mercer (Peninsula Press, 2026). Livia is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where she also coordinates The Goldsmiths Prize. She lives in south east London.

Books by Livia Franchini

Shelf Life

Launching an impressive new voice, SHELF LIFE is the exquisite, heart-wrenching story of a young woman rebuilding herself after her partner of ten years abandons her, leaving behind only their shared shopping list for the upcoming week.

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