Louise Sinclair was the translator of Cesare Pavese’s The Moon and the Bonfire. Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born in the Italian region of Piedmont. Now considered one of Italy’s most distinctive writers, he was unable to publish his creative writing during the fascist era and instead channeled his energies into translating the work of some of the greatest English-language writers into Italian. He was imprisoned by the government in 1935--inspiring his novel The Political Prisoner--and lived with the partisans from 1943 to 1945. The bulk of his work--stories, poems, and novels--appeared between 1945 and his suicide in 1950.