Fabio Stassi

Fabio Stassi was born in Rome in 1962. He is the head of Italian literature at a well-known Italian publishing house and also runs a university library in Rome. He made his literary debut in 2006. He has written thirteen novels, short stories, essays and children’s books. In 2013, he achieved great success with his novel *Carlo’s Last Dance*, which was translated into 19 languages and won six awards in Italy, including the Premio Selezione Campiello. In 2016, he won the Scerbanenco Award for the best noir novel of the year with his book *The Lost Reader* (Ikaros, 2018), which was much loved by Greek readers, as were the subsequent books in the series featuring the bibliotherapist Vince Corso: Every Coincidence Has a Soul (Ikaros, 2019) and I Kill Whoever I Want (Ikaros, 2022).