Paolo Nori (Parma, 1963), a graduate in Russian literature, has published novels and essays, including Bassotuba is not here (1999), Her name is Francesca, this novel (2002), We will take revenge (2006), The malcontents (2010), The Russians are crazy (2019) e So sorry (2020). He has translated and edited works by Russian authors, including Pushkin, Gogol’, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky, of whom he recently edited a new translation of Underground Memories.

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