Architecture graduate at Florence University, in 1984 Sandro Veronesi published his first and only collection of poems entitled Il resto del cielo (The Remainder of the Sky”) and in 1988 his first novel Per dove parte questo treno allegro (“For Where this Merry Train is Leaving”), followed by Gli sfiorati (“The Skimmed”, 1990) and Venite venite B-52 (“Come, Come, B-52s”, 1995), inspired to US literature and winner of the Fiesole Book Award in 1996. The Force of the Past (2000), on which the film of the same name by Piergiorgio Gay is based, won the Viareggio and Campiello Book Prizes and has been translated into 15 languages. Quiet Chaos (2005), Strega Book Prize winner in 2006, was published in 20 countries and became in 2008 a film directed by Antonello Grimaldi starring Nanni Moretti. His later works include Ring City (2001), winner of the Fregene Book Prize, Brucia Troia (“Burn Troy”, 2007), XY (2010), Flaiano and Superflaiano Book Prize winner in 2011, the collection of short stories Baci scagliati altrove (“Kisses Hurled Elsewhere”, 2011), the essay Viaggi e viaggetti. Finché il tuo cuore non è contento (“Journeys and Trips. Until Your Heart is Happy”, 2013). The novel Terre rare (“Rare Lands”), winner of the Bagutta Prize in 2015 and which saw the return of the Calm Chaos character Pietro Paladini, was published in 2014. In 2015 he published Non dirlo. Il vangelo di Marco (“Don’t Say It. Mark’s Gospel”), on which a theatre monologue of the same name was based, and in 2016 Un dio ti guarda (“A God is Watching You) became one of the 15 short stories on tennis in the collection Smash. A contributor to several important Italian publications, Veronesi has also published two collections of interviews, Cronache italiane (“Italian Chronicles”, 1992) and Live (1996), an investigative book on the death penalty throughout the world, Occhio per occhio (“An Eye for an Eye”, 1992), and a collection of articles, Superalbo (2002). Today he contributes to major Italian national dailies “Il Corriere della sera” and “La Gazzetta dello Sport”. He is the founder of the Web Station “Radiogas” and, with Domenico Procacci, of Fandango publishers. He lives partly in Rome and partly in Prato with his children.