Sandro Veronesi

Sandro Veronesi is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. He has published seven novels, one collection of poetry, and five non-fiction books.

The Force of the Past won the Viareggio-Repaci Prize and the Campiello Prize and was a Zerilli-Marimo finalist. In 2005, he won the Strega Prize for Quiet Chaos.

Veronesi now lives in Rome.

Articles by Sandro Veronesi

Thursday March 10

Quiet Chaos

I do spinning. Yolanda’s cellphone starts ringing in the nick of time: it forces her to walk a few steps away from me to answer it, and I can regroup, try to better understand what she has just told me—because even a void can be dizzying. I do spinning. OK. A little while ago, while