Marta Barone Marta Barone was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and a freelance editor. Her novel Sunken City, translated into six languages, has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize and won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. She is also the author of several children's books.Julia MacGibbon has previously translated non-fiction and poetry. Sunken City is her first translation of a novel. She lives near Rome.

A transfixing amalgam of novel, memoir and history ... exquisite prose

Marta Barone Marta Barone was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and a freelance editor. Her novel Sunken City, translated into six languages, has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize and won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. She is also the author of several children's books.Julia MacGibbon has previously translated non-fiction and poetry. Sunken City is her first translation of a novel. She lives near Rome.

A transfixing amalgam of novel, memoir and history ... exquisite prose

Marta Barone Marta Barone was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and a freelance editor. Her novel Sunken City, translated into six languages, has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize and won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. She is also the author of several children's books.Julia MacGibbon has previously translated non-fiction and poetry. Sunken City is her first translation of a novel. She lives near Rome.

A transfixing amalgam of novel, memoir and history ... exquisite prose