Paola Capriolo (born 1 January 1962[1]) is an Italian novelist and translator.
[2] The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin,[2] she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a degree in philosophy in 1996.
In 1988, she published her first book La grande Eulalia, a collection of short stories[3] which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize.
[3] Capriolo is also a reviewer for Corriere della Sera and a translator of German fiction.
[1] Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese.