ALESSANDRO RAVEGGI (Florence, 1980) is an Italian novelist and scholar. Research fellow in Comparative Literature at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, he taught Italian Literature at New York University from 2013 to 2020. He is also editor-in-chief at The Florence Review, the first Italian bilingual literary magazine, in Italian and English.

He published, among other books, the novels Continuate in ciò che è giusto (Bompiani, 2025), Grande karma (Bompiani, 2020, nominee for the 2021 Strega Prize), Nella vasca dei terribili piranha (Effigie, 2012), A Città del Messico con Bolaño (Perrone, 2022), the collection of short stories Il grande regno dell’emergenza (LiberAria, 2016), the essays Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue della letteratura (Marsilio 2023), Calvino Americano (Le Lettere, 2012) and the first Italian complete introduction to D. F. Wallace (David Foster Wallace, Doppiozero editions, 2014), the collections of poems In caso di perdita (Interno Poesia, 2024), Nominazioni (Ladolfi, 2016), La trasfigurazione degli animali in bestie (Transeuropa, 2011, bilingual edition), and series of short stories for the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera. He also lived in México City for more than 4 years, and it is his second hometown.

He also published short stories and non-fiction in Italian, English and Spanish for renowned Italian and International magazines such as “The Kenyon Review”, “Revista Universidad”, “Letras Libres” “Wired”, “Esquire”, “Forbes”, “Minima&Moralia”, “Doppiozero”, “Alfabeta2”, “Linus”, “Il Tascabile”, “Carmilla”, “Nazione Indiana”, “Nuova Prosa”, “The Towner”, and poems for “Luvina”, “Poesia”, “Il verri”, “Versodove”, “Le parole e le cose”, “Nuovi Argomenti”, among others.

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