Tim Parks

Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature.
Career.
He is the author of nineteen novels (notably "Europa", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997). His first novel, "Tongues of Flame", won both the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. In the same year, Parks was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for "Loving Roger". Other highly praised titles were "Shear", "Destiny", "Judge Savage", "Cleaver", and "In Extremis". He has also had a number of stories published in "The New Yorker".
Since the 1990s Parks has written frequently for both the "London Review of Books" and "The New York Review of Books", as well as publishing various works of non-fiction, most notably "A Season with Verona", shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and "Teach Us to Sit Still", shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
Between 1993 and 2019 Parks taught as a university professor at IULM University, Milan. He is also a translator and has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli and Giacomo Leopardi. His non-fiction book "Translating Style" has been described as "canonical in the field of translation studies". He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian. In 2011 he co-curated the exhibition "Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities" at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The exhibition was loosely based on Parks's book "Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence".
Personal life.
Parks married Rita Baldassarre in 1979. The couple have three children. They divorced in 2017.