Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Over the course of his career he won France’s Medicis Prize for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem, and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. A staunch critic of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he once said that “democracy isn’t a state of perfection, it has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.”

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Over the course of his career he won France’s Medicis Prize for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem, and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. A staunch critic of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he once said that “democracy isn’t a state of perfection, it has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.”

Books by Antonio Tabucchi

  • The Edge of the Horizon

    Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks

    Paperback, 2015

    New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
  • Pereira Maintains

    Antonio Tabucchi, Patrick Creagh

    Paperback, 2017

    Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times)
  • The Edge of the Horizon

    Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks

    E Book, 2015

    New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available...
  • Pereira Maintains

    Antonio Tabucchi, Patrick Creagh

    E Book, 2017

    Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times)