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John Hooper is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent specialising in the countries of the Mediterranean

The US edition of my new book on Italy

The UK edition of The Italians

Madrid Palacio de Oriente

Tuscany

Madrid skyscrapers

Rome skyline

Venice

Naples

About Me

I have been a foreign correspondent for more than 30 years and am currently The Economist’s correspondent for Italy and the Vatican. I also write about art and archaeology for the Wall Street Journal. My latest book, The Italians, has appeared in best-seller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. A previous work, The Spaniards, won the Allen Lane Award for a best first work of non-fiction. It has since twice been updated as The New Spaniards, most recently in 2006.

I lecture at Stanford University and in 2021 became an honorary fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. My latest book, in collaboration with Anna Kraczyna, is an annotated translation for Penguin Classics of The Adventures of Pinocchio.

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