Alessandro De Roma was born in 1970 in Sardinia, where he still lives, and where he teaches history and philosophy. He has published the novels Vita e morte di Ludovico Lauter (Il Maestrale, 2007), La fine dei giorni (Il Maestrale, 2008), Il primo passo nel bosco (Il Maestrale, 2010), Quando tutto tace (Bompiani, 2011), La mia maledizione (Einaudi, 2014), and Nessuno resta solo (Einaudi, 2021). He is one of the contributors to the charity anthology Sei per la Sardegna (Einaudi, 2014), alongside Francesco Abate, Marcello Fois, Salvatore Mannuzzu, Michela Murgia, and Paola Soriga. His novel Grande terra sommersa was published by Fandango Libri in 2023. His books have been translated into French by the publisher Gallimard.