Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator, writer, and editor. He has translated numerous French and Hispanic authors including Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Virginie Despentes. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, his work has twice earned him the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and been awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize three times and the Premio Valle Inclán twice. Most recently, his translation of The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard won the 2024 French-American Prize. He has edited two major anthologies, Found in Translation: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Translated and Queer: LGBT Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday.

"This is most significantly a song of love to a country of contradictions, battered, war-torn, divided, misguided and miraculous: an Italy where life is costume and the performance of art, and where circuses spring up on wasteland. The Italy that produced both Mussolini and Fellini, fascists and futurists and communists; where 'beauty is always imperilled' and 'genius grows like a weed.'"
--THE GUARDIAN

"Andrea blends the tumultuous history of 20th-century Italy with finely wrought character work. It's a marvel."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review