Mario Fortunato

Mario Fortunato was born in Cirò, Calabria, Italy. For three decades he worked as a literary critic for the Italian current affairs magazine L’Espresso and directed the Italian Cultural Institute in London. In addition to writing novels such as South (Other Press, 2023), a New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year, and The Innocent Days of War (Other Press, 2025), he has translated into Italian works by Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James.