Fabio Morábito

Fabio Morábito was born in Alexandria Egypt in 1955 to Italian parents. He moved to Milan when he was five, and when he was fifteen he moved to Mexico City, where he currently lives and works in the Autonomous University of Mexico. Morábito is the author of four books of poetry including De lunes todo el año [Monday All Year Long], which won the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize, and Delante de un prado una vaca [In Front of a Pasture, a Cow], two novels including Caja de herramientas [Tool Box] (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989), which was translated into English by Geoff Hargreaves and published by Xenox Books in 1996, five books of short stories including La vida ordenada [An Ordered Life] (Tusquets, 2000) and Grieta de fatiga [Rift of Fatigue] (Tusquets, 2012), and three books of essays including El idioma materno [Mother Tongue] (Sexto Piso, 2014). Morábito is also a prolific translator, and he has translated the complete works of Eugenio Montale and Aminto de Torquato Tasso, among many other Italian poets and prose writers. In addition to Geoff Hargreaves’s English translation of the book Tool Box, his writing has been translated into German, French, Portuguese and Italian.