Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian novelist, translator and art critic. He was born in Rome and currently lives in Milan. He is an art critic and has translated many books into Italian, by authors such as George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hanif Kureishi. His writing has appeared in frieze, Corriere della Sera and La Stampa and he is a regular contributor to Internazionale. Perfection is his fourth novel, his first to be translated into English. It was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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