Leonardo San Pietro Author

Leonardo San Pietro (Author)
Leonardo San Pietro was born in Turin in 1997. He studied at the Holden School of Creative Writing and worked as a reader at Giulio Einaudi Editore. He recently completed a master’s degree in linguistic sciences in Bologna, where he lives. Party Animal, his first novel, received Italy’s Premio Mondello in 2025 and is now being translated into thirteen languages.

Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
Todd Portnowitz’s translations from Italian include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (co-translated with the author), Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini, and Go Tell It to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello, for which he received a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.