Fabio Morábito was born to Italian parents in Alexandria in 1955 and has lived in Mexico City since the age of fifteen. He has published five collections of poetry, including De lunes todo el año, which won the Aguascalientes National Prize for Poetry in 1991 and Lotes baldíos, which was awarded the 1995 Carlos Pellicer prize. His poetry and short stories have established him as one of Mexico’s best-known writers over the past 30 years. He has compiled and retold a book of 125 oral Mexican short stories, Cuentos populares mexicanos (2014), which won the ‘White Raven Prize’ in 2015. His novel El lector a domicilio (2018) was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Award. He is also a prolific translator from Italian, and his own books have been widely translated.