If You Kept a Record of Sins

About Andrea BajaniElizabeth Harris

Andrea Bajani is an Italian novelist journalist and poet whose work has been translated into many languages. His novel Ogni promessa (Every Promise) won the oldest and most prestigious Italian literary award the Bagutta Prize. His collection of short stories La vita non è in ordine alfabetico won the Settembrini Prize in 2014. Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins) won the Super Mondello Prize the Brancati Prize the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. He teaches at Rice University in the Department of Classical and European studies. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Elizabeth Harris's translations from Italian include Mario Rigoni Stern's Giacomo's Seasons Giulio Mozzi's This Is the Garden and Antonio Tabucchi's Tristano Dies For Isabel: A Mandala and Stories with Pictures. Her prizes include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant an NEA Translation Fellowship The Italian Prose in Translation Award and the National Translation Award for Prose.