Claudia Durastanti is a writer and literary translator based in London. She was born in New York and grew up there and in Italy. She has dual Italian and American citizenship.

Her critically acclaimed debut novel Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra won the Premio Mondello Giovani in 2010. She is the author of four novels. Cleopatra Goes To Prison is her first novel to be translated into English.

She is one of the rising stars of Italian fiction.