Paolo Di Paolo

Paolo Di Paolo was born in Rome in 1983. In 2003, he was shortlisted for the Italo Calvino Prize for unpublished works with his collection of short stories *New Skies, New Papers*. He has published books of interviews with the Italian writers Antonio Debenedetti, Raffaele La Capria and Dacia Maraini. He has also published the books Every Journey Is a Novel. Books, Departures, Arrivals (2007) and Tell Me About the Night I Was Born (2008). He has also worked in television and theatre: The Light Breath of Abruzzo (2001), written for the actress Franca Valeri; The Innocence of Postmen (2010), which was staged that same year in Naples as part of the Italia Theatre Festival.

Where Were You All? won the 2012 Modello Award, the 2012 Vitorini Award in Syracuse, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Giocavolante Award.