ROBERTO SAVIANO is the author of Gomorrah, an investigative book about the economic and social reality of organized crime in Camorra, Italy. The book became an international bestseller and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. His other books include La bellezza e l'inferno (Beauty and the inferno) (2009); Vieni via con me (Come away with me) (2011), ZeroZeroZero (2013), La paranza dei bambini (The children's boat) (2016), In mare non esistono taxi (There are no taxis at sea) (2019), and Solo è il coraggio (Only courage) (2022). He has written several screenplays and regularly contributes to newspapers and magazines.

ANNE MILANO APPEL is an American translator. She has translated nearly four dozen books from Italian to English, including Giovanni Arpino's Scent of a Woman, which won the 2024 John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, Pope Francis's God is Young, and Claudio Magris's Blindly, which won the inaugural Italian Prose in Translation Award.