Vincenzo Latronico

Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian writer and translator who lives in Milan. His novel Perfection, translated into English by Sophie Hughes, was short-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize and long-listed for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Dreamlike nineteenth-century French lithograph of a woman resting her head on her hands
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
March 16, 2026