Michela Marzano was born in Rome in 1970. She studied at the Normale Superiore in Pisa and since 1998 she has been living in Paris, where she is Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at Université Paris Cité. She writes for “la Repubblica” and “La Stampa”. She is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books in French and Italian, which have been translated into many languages. L’amore è tutto: è tutto ciò che so dell’amore (UTET) won the Premio Bancarella 2014, and Stirpe e vergogna (Rizzoli) won the Premio Mondello 2022. With Rizzoli she published Sto ancora aspettando che qualcuno mi chieda scusa (2023), and her latest novel Qualcosa che brilla (2025).