Rossana Campo Author

Rossana Campo (1963-) is an Italian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and painter. Her debut novel, In the Beginning Was Underwear (1992), earned her a reputation as one of the “bad girls” of contemporary Italian literature, an original and transgressive new voice. Her many novels include Where Are You Going to Find Another Father Like Mine (2016), which was awarded the prestigious Premio Strega Giovani and the Elsa Morante Prize. Adria Frizzi is a scholar and translator of Italian and Latin American literature. Her translations include works by Marina Colasanti, Osman Lins, Caio Fernando Abreu, Regina Rheda, Dacia Maraini, Elena Ferrante, and Rossana Campo. She teaches Italian and translation studies at the University of Texas at Austin.