Margherita Carbonaro was born in Milan, Italy, in 1964. She studied Italian Philology and Literature at Milan State University. She has been working for over twenty years in publishing, both as an editor and as a translator from German and English – and presently also from Latvian – for some of Italy’s most prestigious publishing houses. She has translated, among others, works by significant authors such as Thomas Mann, Herta Müller, Max Frisch, Ingo Schulze, Uwe Timm, Pearl S. Buck, Nora Ikstena. Her translation of Zigmunds Skujiņš “Miesas krāsas domino” is scheduled to be published in 2017 by Iperborea Publishing House, Milan. She is also author of a collection of short stories, “La vita è qui / Das Leben ist hier”, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2012. After having lived for several years in Berlin and Beijing, she lives currently in Italy and Southern Germany.