Viola Di Grado profiled in the New York Times Style Magazine

Italian writer Viola Di Grado's "fearless" debut novel 70% ACRYLIC 30% WOOL, out this month in English translation from Europa Editions, is already earning her a lot of attention in the States. In Italy, the book won the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for Italy's most prestigious literary award, The Strega.

This coming Sunday, T Magazine will publish a brief profile of Di Grado and her novel by Stephen Heyman. Excerpted below, the full profile is currently available online:

"Last year, when she was just 23, Viola Di Grado published her fearless first novel, 70% ACRYLIC 30% WOOL (Europa Editions, $16), which became a best seller in her native Italy . . . This rapid rise was mostly attributed to her shimmering prose. (One Italian critic compared it to 'Oriental porcelain.') . . . 'If someone reads the book before bed and then can fall asleep, I think I failed,' Di Grado explains. 'Literature has to make you stop sleeping.'” --Stephen Heyman

70% ACRYLIC 30% WOOL is available now wherever books are sold.

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