Books By Cesare Pavese - Author

Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country outside of Turin in northern Italy. After publishing Hard Labor in1936, he turned to writing novels and short stories. Pavese won the Strega Prize for fiction, Italy's most prestigious award, for The Moon and the Bonfires (available as an NYRB Classic) in 1950. Later the same year, after a brief affair with an American actress, he committed suicide. Pavese's posthumous publications include his celebrated diaries, essays on American literature, and a second collection of poems, entitled Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes). NYRB Classics also publishes The Selected Works of Cesar Pavese.  William Arrowsmith (1924-1992) was an American classicist, academic, and translator, esteemed for his translations Greek drama in particular. He was the founding editor of the Hudson Review. Ted Olson is a Professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the autho