Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix Médicis Étranger for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature Prize for Pereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi’s works include The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico (Archipelago), The Woman of Porto Pim (Archipelago), Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Letter from Casablanca, and The Edge of the Horizon (all from New Directions).

The writer Jhumpa Lahiri quotes Tabucchi in the epigraph to her book In Other Words about her love for Italian: I needed a language that could be a place for reflection and affections.

Tabucchi's Pereira Maintains served as writer David Leavitt's guide to Lisbon, and Mohsin Hamid dedicates several impassioned pages to Pereira in his latest collection Discontent and Its Civilizations.

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