Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena. Deeply drawn to Portugal, he became an expert, critic and translator of Fernando Pessoa, and wrote about the poet's ideas of saudade and heteronyms. His novel Pereira Maintains won the Aristeion Prize, and Indian Nocturne, a novella about a man crossing India to find an estranged friend, earned the French Médicis étranger.