Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. For Europa Editions, she has translated three novels by Elena Ferrante (The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter) and The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno. Her most recent translation for Europa is Clash of Civilizations Over and Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, A Guggenheim Translation fellowship, and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in New York.

Michael F. Moore, Chair of the PEN Translation Committee, is a New York-based writer, translator, and interpreter. His previous translations, from the Italian, include God's Mountain by Erri De Luca, The Silence of the Body, by Guido Ceronetti, and the poetry of Alfredo Giuliani, in I Novissimi: Poetry for the Sixties. He is currently working on a new translation of the classic Italian novel The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.

Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Living Islam as a Minority." His first novel, Le cimici e il pirata (Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italy's prestigious Flaiano prize, is his second novel. He lives in Italy.