Tim Parks

Tim Parks was born in Manchester and moved to Italy in 1981. He is the author of three non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy, most recently A Season with Verona (Vintage/Arcade), and eleven novels. He has translated the work of, among others, Alberto Moravia and Italo Calvino and lectures on literary translation at the University of Milan. Cleaver, his latest novel, is published by Harvill Secker.