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Edoardo Ballerini is a two time winner of the Audiobook Publishers Association\u2019s Best Male Narrator Audie Award (2013,\xa0Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter; 2019,\xa0Watchers\xa0by Dean Koontz). He has recorded nearly 300 titles, from classic works by Tolstoy, Dante, Kafka, Whitman and Camus, to best-sellers by James Patterson and David Baldacci, and spiritual titles by The Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hahn.

On screen, Ballerini is best known for his role as junkie "Corky Caporale" on\xa0The Sopranos\xa0(HBO) and as the star chef in the indie classic\xa0Dinner Rush.\xa0He has appeared in over 50 films and tv shows, including a series regular role in the critically acclaimed\xa0Quarry,\xa0(Cinemax) \xa0and recurring roles in\xa0Boardwalk Empire\xa0(HBO),\xa024\xa0(Fox) and\xa0Elementary\xa0(CBS).

Ballerini's work as a narrator has garnered international attention. Articles on his work and career have appeared in\xa0The New York Times,\xa0The Guardian\xa0(UK),\xa0Aftenposten\xa0(Norway) and\xa0MediaPost\xa0(US),\xa0among others. In 2019 he recorded Robert Alter\u2019s translation of\xa0The Hebrew Bible\xa0in its entirety. In 2020 he added Leo Tolstoy's\xa0War and Peace\xa0to his growing list of titles.

He is also a two time winner of the Society of Voice Arts Award, and was recently named a \u201cGolden Voice\u201d by AudioFile Magazine, an honorific bestowed to only 30 narrators in the magazine\u2019s 19 year history.

Other authors Edoardo has voiced include Tom Wolfe, Eve Ensler, Italo Calvino, Carson McCullers, Jay McInerney, Stendhal, Stephen Greenblatt, Jeffrey Deaver, Danielle Steel, Chuck Palahniuk, Louis L\u2019Amour, Adriana Trigiani, Isabel Allende, Stieg Larsson, James Salter, Paul Theroux and Jodi Picoult.

Besides narrating audiobooks, Edoardo \xa0is also a regular contributor to\xa0Audm, where he voices articles for\xa0The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books,\xa0and many other publications.

He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and lives in New York.

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