Paolo Giordano was born on 19 December 1982, in
Turin, Italy. He studied
physics at the
University of Turin and holds a PhD in theoretical
particle physics.
The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, has sold over a million copies and was translated into thirty languages. The Italian language
film based on the novel was released in September 2010. His book
How Contagion Works is one of the first to be written on the
COVID-19 pandemic and warns of the danger of
authoritarianism. == Bibliography ==