Ian Thomson
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Ian Thomson was one of the last to interview
Primo Levi, and the first to journey in his tracks as a biographer. He is an expert on Italian literature and has translated the Sicilian crime writer and essayist Leonardo Sciascia into English.Thomson is the author of two prize-winning works of reportage,Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti and The Dead Yard: Tales of
Modern Jamaica. He edited Articles of Faith: The
Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene,
while his book Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey
Without End was published in 2018. He is the
recipient of the Royal Society of Literature’s
Ondaatje Prize and the W. H. Heinemann Award. He lives in London.
Books by Ian Thomson
'Hair-raising but hugely entertaining' J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph
Now updated and with a new foreword by the author for the post-earthquake edition.