Andrej Longo was born in Ischia.
In 2002 he published his first book, More or Less at Three (Zero Meridian).
In 2003 the novel Adelante published by Rizzoli was released.
With Adelphi, in 2007, he published Ten with which he won the Chiara Prize; Who Killed Sarah? (2009), The Sunflower Field (2011) and The Other Mother (2016). In 2017 he won the City of Vigevano Literary Prize.
He is the author of plays including: the re-adaptation of Le relazioni pericolose (directed by Pierpaolo Sepe), Falene (theater and cinema) and Signori in carrozza (directed by Paolo Sessanelli). Some of his books have since become plays (More or Less at Three, Who Killed Sarah? and Ten). Moving between Rome, Ischia and Naples, he is also involved in film and radio.
His latest novel, A Thousand Days You Don’t Come, published by Sellerio, came out in 2022.
This is a collection of eleven short stories, set in Naples, in its endless suburbs.
The stories are all about women. They are taken from the news, stolen by everyday life, describing unknown portraits of ordinary life in Naples. Eleven women dealing with common troubles, often trying to change the course of their lives, which seems to have already been established by someone else.
Ten short stories set in Naples’ suburbs. Each of them refers to a commandment, but there isn’t any religious reference and no judgment occurs.
Policeman Antonio Acanfora returns to investigate a Naples full of contradictions populated by characters who are ordinary but also exceptional, sometimes ironic or indifferent, sometimes sordid or ambiguous. And here, a city celebrates a new miracle of blue shirts.
Erase the past, start from scratch after changing oneself. But is there really a second chance? A portrait of a character chasing himself through a labyrinth from which it is possible to get out, only to find himself back where he started.
