Alessandra Carati is a journalist and writer living in Milan. The novel from which the excerpt in this issue was taken, E poi saremo salvi, translated as And Then We Will Be Safe, won the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize for debut authors in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Strega, Italy’s most prestigious prize for literary fiction, in 2022. Carati wrote Bestie da vittoria with Danilo Di Luca and La via perfetta with Daniele Nardi. Her latest novel, Rosy, was published by Mondadori in 2024.
