Tiziano Scarpa was born in Venice in 1963. A novelist, poet, and playwright, he won the 2009 Premio Strega and the 2009 Premio SuperMondello for his novel Stabat Mater.

Among his works are Occhi sulla graticola (Einaudi 1998 and 2005), Venezia è un pesce (Feltrinelli 2000, 2000), Le cose fondamentali (Einaudi 2010 and 2012), La vita, non il mondo (Laterza 2010), Il brevetto del geco (Einaudi 2016 and 2017), Il cipiglio del gufo (2018 and 2020), the poetry collection Le nuvole e i soldi (2018), Una libellula di città (minimum fax 2018), and La penultima magia (Einaudi 2020).

Since the early 1990s, he has written around fifteen works for theater and radio, all of which have been performed, including L'infinito (Einaudi 2011).
His books have been translated into numerous languages.