Ian Thomson

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.