Vincenzo Latronico Books

Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian novelist and translator whose fiction explores contemporary life, art, technology, mobility, and class. His books include La cospirazione delle colombe and Le perfezioni. The latter, a sharply observed portrait of an Italian couple living in Berlin amid digital work and curated consumption, was translated into English as The Perfection and longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024. Latronico’s prose is known for its cool, precise attention to the habits and contradictions of affluent modern life.