09 July 2009

Serpent's Tail press acquires rights to Italian Booker Prize winner

Serpent's Tail, an independent publishing house based in London, has acquired the worldwide English-language rights to Tiziano Scarpa's Stabat Mater, the winner of 2009's Premio Strega, the leading literary award in Italy.

The epistolary novel is told from the point-of-view of composer Antonio Vivaldi's teenage muse in eighteenth-cenutry Venice.

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