Roberto Saviano was born in Naples in 1979. As a journalist, he writes for
La Repubblica and
L'Espresso, as well as for many newspapers around the world. After the publication of
Gomorrah (now translated into forty languages) and its subsequent film adaptation, he received several death threats, obliging the Italian government to provide him with twenty-four-hour protection. He has been living in hiding since 2006. In 2011 he was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize.
Oonagh Stransky is the translator of works by Carlo Lucarelli and Giuseppe Pontiggia.