PAOLO MAURENSIG was born in Gorizo, and lives in Udine, Italy. Now a bestselling author, he debuted in 1993 with The Lüneburg Variation, translated into twenty-five languages, and selling over 2 million copies in Italy. His novels include Canone Inverso, The Guardian of Dreams, The Archangel of Chess, and Theory of Shadows, which won the Bagutta Prize in 2016. A Devil Comes to Town is his latest novel, and has received rave reviews from the Italian press.
