Miniature Painting in Uzbekistan: Strokes of Wisdom

Rolando Montecalvo is a writer and editor currently based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Italian by nationality, he spent 15 years in the United States, where he earned a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He has also lived and worked in India, Thailand, Turkey, Switzerland and Cambodia. Over the years, he has been involved in many book projects, working in-house at publishers including Oxford University Press and Penguin Books, and as a freelance copy-editor and ghost-writer.