Erri De Luca

Enrico "Erri" De Luca (born 20 May 1950, Naples)[1][2] is an Italian novelist, translator and poet.

He has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of Corriere della Sera as "the writer of the decade".

[5] Upon completing high school in 1968, Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua.

Erri De Luca is self-taught in several languages, including Ancient Hebrew, Swahili, Russian and Yiddish.

In 2024 he wrote and interpreted the short movie "The Experimental Age", produced by Soul Film Production and OH!PEN.

Many more books followed, best-sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, and more.

He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian, including Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, and Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.