DOUGLAS ANTHONY COOPER

Douglas Anthony Cooper's first novel, Amnesia, was a national bestseller; it was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Delirium, which followed, was the first novel serialized on the Web. His latest, The Strangler Fig, will appear in the fall in both English and Italian translation.

Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help, his YA novel, was a bestseller in the UK, and was just published in Turkish under the title Ghost Chemistry (Hortlak Kimyası).

Cooper lives in Rome, and collaborates regularly with artists and architects around the world: most recently on a video installation with Diller Scofidio + Renfro at the Venice Biennale.

For five years Cooper was a Contributing Editor at New York Magazine, where he wrote and photographed the travel features. His essays and photography have appeared in Food & Wine, Rolling Stone, Travel+Leisure and The New York Times; and he has been collected in The Best American Travel Writing (ed. Pico Iyer).

Douglas Anthony Cooper's journalism has won numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award in Canada, and the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal, America's most prestigious travel writing award.