Carmen Pellegrino, writer and historian, has explored some key issues of contemporary life, from collective dissidence movements (as in the book '68 napoletano. Lotte studentesche e conflitti sociali tra conservatorismo e utopie, 2008) to the more recent recovery of the history of abandoned places. She has co-authored various collective works (including Qui si chiama fatica, 2010; Non è un paese per donne, 2011; Novantadue, 2012), and her first novel, Cade la terra (2015), won the Premio Rapallo Carige for a debut work and the Premio Selezione Campiello. Her second novel, Se mi tornassi questa sera accanto (2017), won the Premio Dessì. In 2021, she published La felicità degli altri with La nave di Teseo, which won the Premio Selezione Campiello and the Premio Letterario Internazionale Latisana. In 2023, she was awarded the English Pen Translates Award, following which Cade la terra (The Earth is Falling) was published in the United Kingdom, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Her novel Dove la luce won the Premio Porta d’Oriente 2024 and the Premio The Bridge 2024 for Italian fiction.