Tommaso Landolfi

Tommaso Landolfi (1908-1979) was an Italian writer, translator, and literary critic born in Pico, Italy, to a noble family, who graduated from the University of Florence in Russian literature in 1932. He was renowned for his grotesque tales and novels blending speculative fiction, science fiction, horror, and realism, influenced by authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Nikolai Gogol, with notable works including Dialogo dei massimi sistemi (1937), La pietra lunare (1939), Racconto d'autunno (1947), and A caso (1975), the latter winning the Strega Prize. eNotes