About our guests
Mattia Filice became a train driver in 2004. Since then, he has been on the rails, stationed out of the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris. His first novel Driver (Mécano, P.O.L, 2024) was translated from French by Jacques Houis and published in English by New York Review Books.
Ben Faccini was born in England and brought up in rural France and Italy. He worked for many years for the UNESCO in Paris. He is the author of two books, The Water-Breather (Flamingo 2002) and The Incomplete Husband (Portobello 2007). As well as novels, he has written extensively on issues in the developing world, particularly about streets and working children and innovations in education. Apart from his writing skills, Ben Faccini is a translator. He has translated into English novels such as Lydie Salvayre’s Pas pleurer (as Cry, Mother Spain) and Mahi Binebine’s Le Fou du Roi (as The King’s Fool).
