Carmine Abate Author

CARMINE ABATE is a prolific Italian author whose many books include the novels Between Two Seas and The Homecoming Party and the short story collection The Wedding Banquet and Other Flavors. His debut novel, The Round Dance (Il ballo tondo), won the ARGE ALP Readers’ International Prize.
 
MICHELANGELO LA LUNA is Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of several books and articles on Italian and Italian-Albanian writers and poets, such as Carmine Abate, Luigi Capuana, Dante Alighieri, Girolamo De Rada, Dacia Maraini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.