Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950. He is a writer, poet, translator and journalist. He studied ancient Hebrew as a self-taught and translated some books of the Bible. He writes for “the Manifesto.”
He has published with Feltrinelli: Not Now, Not Here (1989), A Cloud as a Carpet (1991), Vinegar, Rainbow (1992), Upper Left (1994), Towpath (1997), You, Mine (1998), Three Horses (1999), Montedidio (2001), The Opposite of One (2003), Outdoor Trades. Shepherds and Fishermen in the Old and New Testaments (with Gennaro Matino, 2004), Just Gone. Rows That Go Too Often (2005), In the Name of the Mother (2006), At Least 5 (with Gennaro Matino, 2008), The Day Before Happiness (2009), The Weight of the Butterfly (2009), And He Said (2011), The Fish Don’t Close Their Eyes (2011), The Soldier’s Wrong (2012), The Double Life of Numbers (2012), Does That Seem Like the Case? Skirmish between a storyteller and a biologist (with Paolo Sassone-Corsi 2013) and Story of Irene (2013).
Among the latest books published with Feltrinelli: La faccia delle nuvole (2016), La natura esposta (2016), Il giro dell’oca (2018), Impossibile (2019), A grandezza naturale (2021), the graphic novel L’ora X. Una storia di Lotta Continua (2019; with Cosimo Damiano Damato and Paolo Castaldi), Le regole dello Shangai (2023) and A schiovere (2023).
