Antonio Scurati

Antonio Scurati was born in Naples in 1969 and lives in Milan. He is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative writing at the IULM University in Milan and a columnist for Corriere della Sera. He is the author of various novels which have won an array of literary prizes in Italy, and M: Son of the Century is the first to be made available in English. The first in a series of novels about Mussolini and the rise of fascism, it was the winner of the 2019 Strega award and has been translated into forty languages.