Rome

Eleonora Marangoni is a novelist and essayist born in Rome in 1983. She studied comparative literature in Paris, and her writing moves between fiction and cultural criticism, with particular attention to art and place.

Her debut novel, Lux, won the Neri Pozza Prize and was longlisted for the Premio Strega. Her latest novel, L’imperdibile, won the 2026 Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci for fiction. She has also written books about Proust and Monica Vitti. After fifteen years abroad, she returned to Rome, where she now lives.

Dario Diofebi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1987. After a BA and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Rome, he became a professional online poker player from age 22 to 26. After that, he was a traveling high stakes live poker player for another three years, mostly based in Las Vegas. He quit the game to pursue writing, and received an MFA from the NYU Creative Writing Program. He lives in Rome and Brooklyn, NY.