Tim Parks

Tim Parks is a novelist, essayist, travel writer and translator based in Italy. The author of fifteen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Machiavelli and Leopardi. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation in Milan, he writes regularly for the LRB and the NYRB.

His many non-fiction works include the bestselling Italian Neighbours and Teach Us to Sit Still, a memoir on chronic pain and meditation. His critical work includes the essay collection Where I’m Reading From and The Novel: A Survival Skill, a reflection on the relationship between novelists, their writing and their readers.

Tim Parks was longlisted for the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize, organised by the publisher.

Books by this author:
Drawn From Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Drawn From Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne