The Sunday Woman

Carlo Fruttero (1926-2012) and Franco Lucentini (1920-2002) were decades-long literary collaborators. Together they edited anthologies of American literature and science fiction; contributed columns to Italian magazines and newspapers such as La Stampa and L'Espresso; published everything from a political satire of Muammar Gaddafi to a nonfiction handbook about choosing baby names; and most famously, wrote several crime and detective novels, of which The Sunday Woman was the first.

William Weaver (1923-2013) was an American translator responsible for bringing some of the most significant Italian authors of the twentieth century into English, among them Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Primo Levi. His translations of Alberto Moravia's Boredom, Carlo Emilio Gadda's That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, and Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal are all available from NYRB Classics.