PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Veronica Raimo in conversation with Stuart Evers
Friday 29 November, 6.30pm, ICI London
ICI London and Virago Books are thrilled to welcome Veronica Raimo for an exclusive London event about her bestselling, prize-winning novel Lost on Me, translated by Leah Janeczko. A runaway bestseller and the recipient of multiple prizes in Italy (where it was published as Niente di Vero), Lost on Me was published in English to rapturous praise and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Veronica will be talking about Lost On Me with Stuart Evers, prize-winning author of The Blind Light ( translated into Italian as La Luce Cieca in 2021 ); Your Father Sends His Love; and Ten Stories About Smoking.
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Veronica Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. She contributes cultural articles to various Italian publications, and her translations into Italian include works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. She lives in Rome.
Stuart Evers is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Blind Light (New York Times Notable Non Fiction, 2020; translated into Italian as La Luce Cieca in 2021 ), Your Father Sends His Love (shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2016) and Ten Stories About Smoking (winner of the London Book Award, 2011). He writes about books for many publications and is currently working on a novel set in Vienna.