DEVA SUKHI is the name Prashantam pointed out to author Gabriella Braidotti at the end of a meditation group in Osho Miasto, Tuscany. Specialised in business and institutional writing since 1989, she has led a team of journalists and researchers in the field of travel writing. Gabriella Braidotti (Deva SUKHI) lives and works in Turin, where she founded Threesixty as a publishing house and editorial services agency in 1994. She collaborates with numerous newspapers in Italy and abroad writing about design and travel.
Her debut novel “The Moon Man” - inspired by the life of Jose Miguel Pereira De Matos (Prashantam) - won the Nabokov Prize for unpublished works 2024.
The book was translated into English by Marta Bollito and Charles Henri Chodek.