Letter from Casablanca

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Pisa in 1943, Antonio Tabucchi studied at the University of Pisa and did research at the Scuola Normale there. He currently teaches Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of Genoa and is married to Maria José de Lancastre, with whom he translated and edited the Italian edition of the works of Fernando Pessoa (Una sola moltitudine, 1979) for Adelphi. He has two children and lives for most of the year at his home at Vecchiano in the Tuscan countryside, although he also spends long periods in Lisbon, which he regards as his adoptive city. As part of the “European Foundation Libraries in Extra-European Countries” project (sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the University of Genoa), Tabucchi has made extensive research trips to Latin America and India.

Antonio Tabucchi made his debut as a novelist with Piazza d’Italia (Bompiani, 1975). This winner of the I’lnedito Prize was followed by 11 piccolo naviglio (Mondadori, 1978), and II gioco del rovescio (II Saggiatore, 1981), which won the Pozzale-Luigi Russo Prize. Two additional books, Donna di Porto Pun and Notturno indiano, were published by Sellerio in 1983 and 1984, respectively. Tabucchi’s most recent collection of stories, Piccoh equivoci senza importanza. was published by Feltrinelli in 1985 and won the prestigious Comisso Prize for that year. Tabucchi’s work has been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Hungarian. This edition of his prize-winning Il gioco del rovescio (here titled Letter from Casablanca) marks his first appearance in English.