Umberto Eco
UMBERTO ECO is an Italian writer, philosopher, semiotician and literary critic. In 1980, his novel The Name of the Rose became an internationally acclaimed bestseller, and he has since published numerous novels, children’s books and works of non-fiction. Most recently, his novel The Prague Cemetery was shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is the author of The Betrothed, Save the Story Series, Pushkin Children’s Books.