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About Giuseppe O. Longo

Giuseppe O. Longo was born in Forl“, Italy in 1941. He holds degrees in electronic engineering and mathematics and a Ph.D. in cybernetics and information theory. He is a professor of information theory at the University of Trieste. Longo has translated fifteen books from English and German and in 1991 was awarded the Monselice Prize for scientific translation. He has published four collections of short stories and three novels, and several of his plays have been produced. While his novel L'acrobata received the Laure Bataillon award for best novel translated into French, "In Zenoburg" is his first publication in English. Giuseppe O. Longo holds degrees in mathematics and electronic engineering and is professor of Information Theory at the University of Trieste, Italy. His real love, however, is literature, which, as he says, “has saved him from reductionism.” He has published three novels, eight collections of short stories, and a collection of plays. His work has received a variety of awards and prizes and has been translated from Italian into French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and now English. Giuseppe O. Longo holds degrees in electronic engineering and mathematics and a Ph.D. in cybernetics and information theory. He is a professor of information theory at the University of Trieste. Longo has translated fifteen books from English and German and in 1991 was awarded the Monselice Prize for scientific translation. He has published four collections of short stories and three novels, and several of his plays have been produced. He was recently awarded a fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.