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Livia Franchini
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Livia Franchini

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Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy. Her recent publications include the novel Shelf Life, her English-language translation of Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky Is Falling, and the anthology Too Little / Too Hard: Writers on the Intersections of Work, Time and Value, co-edited with Lucy Mercer. Livia is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where she also coordinates the Goldsmiths Prize. She lives in south east London.

Books by Livia Franchini

High Tide

Written in the key of Elif Batuman's The Idiot and Melissa Broder's Milk Fed, His Assistant is an astute, funny tale of about leaving someone else's shadow...only to cast your own.

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Shelf Life

A refreshing, heart-wrenching, innovative debut about a young woman rebuilding herself after her partner abandons her, leaving behind only their shared shopping list for the upcoming week.

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