Paolo Giordano was born in 1982 in Italy. He has a PhD in theoretical particles physics and is now a full time writer. He is the author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, that won the Italian Premio Strega in 2008 and sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, as well as of other three novels – The Human Body, Like Family and Heaven and Earth. He collaborates with newspapers and magazines and has recently published a non-fiction book about the COVID-19 crisis, How Contagion Works, that has been translated into more than 30 languages.