Giorgio van Straten

Giorgio van Straten is the author of several novels, including the prize-winning My Name, A Living Memory. He has translated into Italian the works of authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson. From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and is currently president of the Fondazione Alinari, one of the oldest and most important photographic archives in the world.