Marta Morazzoni was born in Milan in 1950. She teaches literature in a secondary school. She has written three novels and a volume of short stories, Girl in a Turban, described by The Times as "subtle, ironic, an altogether outstanding collection of stories". The Alphonse Courrier Affair was the winner of the prestigious Campiello Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Award, which is awarded to the author and translator jointly.
Emma Rose won the John Florio prize with the first book she translated, Marta Morazzoni's novel His Mother's House.