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Paola Mastrocola was born in Turin, where she lives and worked as a teacher in high school. She began her literary career as a poet and essayist, writing mainly about Fourteenth-Century and Sixteenth-Century Italian Literature. Her debut novel La gallina volante was published in 2000 and won the Premio Calvino. She was shortlisted for Premio Strega in 2001 for Palline di pane and won Premio Campiello in 2004 with Una barca nel bosco. She is the author of La scuola raccontata al mio cane (2004), Che animale sei? (2005), Più lontana della luna (2007), La felicità del galleggiante (2010), Togliamo il disturbo. Saggio sulla libertà di non studiare (2011), Non so niente di te (2013), L’esercito delle cose inutili (2015, Premio letterario Basilicata), La passione ribelle (2015), L’anno che non caddero le foglie (2016), L’amore prima di noi (2016), Leone (2018), Diario di una talpa (2020), La saggezza del lupo (2020), Se tu fossi vero (2021), Il danno scolastico (con Luca Ricolfi, 2021), Manifesto del libero pensiero (con Luca Ricolfi, 2022), La memoria del cielo (2023), La luna va al cinema (2023). Paola Mastrocola’s books have been widely translated abroad. Her last work is Il dio del fuoco (2024).