The Prank Of The Good Little Virgin Of Via Ormea

Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultrual anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Europa Editions, 2008) was awarded Italy’s prestigious Flaiano Prize and was described by the Seattle Times as a wonderfully offbeat novel.

Antony Shugaar is an author and translator. His most recent publication, written with the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., is I Lie for a Living: Dossiers on the Great Spies of All Time (National Geographic Books, Spring 2006). He is the coauthor of Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator (with Gianni Guadalupi) (Carroll & Graf, 2002).