Costanza Casati: I still struggle with imposter syndrome

Costanza Casati was born in Texas and raised in Northern Italy. She holds an MA in Writing from the University of Warwick and has worked as a screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, Clytemnestra, sold into more than twenty territories worldwide and won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, while her second novel, Babylonia, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. In this conversation, Costanza reflects on writing in her second language, English, the imposter syndrome that has accompanied her success, and the visceral encounter with Clytemnestra that first compelled her to write. We speak about language, identity, translation, and the persistence required to claim one's voice across tongues.