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Italian Lit Month n.49, by Michael Palma!

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Leah Janeczko

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1 year ago

#ItalianLitMonth n.47: Reclaiming Puglia in Mario Desiati’s Spatriati by Michael F. Moore Martina Franca, in Puglia, is the hometown of the writer Mario Desiati, and the setting of almost all of his novels. The town, and indeed the region as a whole, is so ubiquitous…

Italian Lit Month n.47, by Michael F. Moore!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.46: Q&A with Translator Jamie Richards Conducted by Jeanne Bonner by Jeanne Bonner Jamie Richards has translated the works of some of the most celebrated writers working in Italy today, including Igiaba Scego and Viola di Grado. She won the 2024 National Translat…

Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.45: Six Italian Literary and Translation Awards You Should Know About by Leah Janeczko They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if the cover boasts one of these six awards, it means that judges somewhere in the world have deemed the book shelfworthy. Tho…

Italian Lit Month n.45, by Leah Janeczko!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.44: On Translating Camilleri: Notes from the Purer Linguistic Sphere of Translation by Stephen Sartarelli I have always believed—at least when translating prose—that a literary translator should be like the arbiter or umpire of a sporting event: the less noticed the better. Whenev…

Italian Lit Month n.44, by Stephen Sartarelli!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.43: Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City by Howard Curtis Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City was first published in Italy in 1973, when its author, like the book’s protagonist, was a young journalist in Rome: this was his fi…

Italian Lit Month n.43, by Howard Curtis!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.42: An Interview with Italian ‘Authorpreneur’ Filippo Iannarone by Lori Hetherington Italian author Filippo Iannarone began investing in his writing ten years ago. His first book, a historical mystery entitled Il Complotto Toscanini, was published traditionally…

Italian Lit Month n.42, by Lori Hetherington!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.41: Vice Versa: Translators Across the Language Divide by Richard Dixon Translation is a solitary pursuit. Our closest work companion is our dictionary. Then, if we’re lucky, we find a group of virtual colleagues to whom we can turn for help. We transl…

Italian Lit Month n.41, by Richard Dixon!

Vice Versa: a brilliant, helpful program for literary translators.

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#ItalianLitMonth n.40: Jack Zipes: Encounters with Gianni Rodari and His Grammar of Fantasy by Jack Zipes I never expected to meet Gianni Rodari, and unfortunately I never did meet him. Nevertheless, he is a real force in my life, a life force, as are many other people whom I have encount…

Italian Lit Month n.40, by Jack Zipes!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.39: Translating Sensitive Content in From Another World by Evelina Santangelo by Ruth Clarke From Another World is primarily the story of Khaled, a child migrant who has decided to retrace his journey back home, away from a Europe that he fails to understand. At the same tim…

Italian Lit Month n.39, by Ruth Clarke!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.38: Conversations: A Look Inside Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds by Catherine Theis This week, the University of Chicago Press’ Phoenix Poets Series has released Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds, the first full-length translation of her poems in English. As her …

Italian Lit Month n.38, by Catherine Theis!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.37: Playing Pretend in Dante’s Inferno (and Other Italian Stories) by Alex Valente Art by Daniela Giubellini Each step will be harder than the last. The first is undoubtedly the easiest. All it takes to find the Eternal Gate is to lose your way. But fear not, trav…

Italian Lit Month n.37, by Alex Valente!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.36: Walking the Philosophical Tightrope by Karen Whittle Translating philosophy is no easy task. It is a balancing act in which the translator has to weigh up every single word in order to convey precisely what the author means to say. T…

Italian Lit Month n.36, by Karen Whittle!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.35: Katherine Gregor and Babas Discuss How to Train Your Human: A Cat’s Guide A conversation with Italian author Babas, a.k.a. Barbara Capponi, with Katherine Gregor about Katherine’s English translation of her book How to Train Your Human (HarperVia, 2024) A book that…

Italian Lit Month n.35, by Katherine Gregor!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.34: Natalia Ginzburg and Italian Women Writers in Translation by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva In the wake of Elena Ferrante’s global popularity, it has become somewhat of a trend for mainstream publications to “introduce” or “discover” other Italian women writer…

Italian Lit Month n.34, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.33: Abandonment: An Eritrean-Italian Story by Oonagh Stransky A recovered gem from the Italian postcolonial literary canon, this heartrending and kaleidoscopic work of creative non-fiction by Erminia Dell’Oro was originally published in 199…

Italian Lit Month n.33, by Oonagh Stransky!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.32: Translating Art Books: Inside Pompeii by Luigi Spina by Emma Mandley As a translator who specializes in texts about art history and antiquities, I’m lucky enough to spend my time poring over fascinating works of art, from classical antiquity to moder…

Italian Lit Month n.32, by Emma Mandley!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.31: No Means No, or Does It? A Moving Testament to a Young Woman’s Courage by Clarissa Botsford The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone is a novel about consent: a living and breathing testament to the #NoMeansNo and #MeToo movements. It’s the kind of book t…

Italian Lit Month n.31, by Clarissa Botsford!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.30: An Enticing Introduction to Contemporary Italian Poetry by Johanna Bishop A good anthology is a fine buffet. A good anthology of poetry in translation is a buffet of dishes that are probably new to you. A good anthology of contemporary poetry in transla…

Italian Lit Month n.30, by Johanna Bishop!

A rich, generous variety of contemporary Italian poetry!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.29: Reading in Translation: Shaping a Culture of Reviewing Italian Literature in Translation by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva In April 2023, the PEN America Translation Committee’s Manifesto on the state of literary translation in America called on editors, reviewers, and review publications t…

Italian Lit Month n.29, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.28: Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini: A Timeless Italian Masterpiece by Leah Janeczko A wealthy lord summons an artist to his palace to paint murals in the three windowless rooms to which his young son is confined due to a life-threatening illness. The artist’s boun…

Italian Lit Month n.28, by Leah Janeczko!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.26: “Born a Rebel” Is a Cry for Gender Justice Author interview by Lisa Mullenneaux Yvette Samnick was born in Okala, Cameroon, in 1985 of a polygamous father, who had four wives. She earned a Master’s degree in Political Science and Internatio…

Italian Lit Month n.26, by Lisa Mullenneaux!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.27: Maria Grazia Calandrone’s Your Little Matter by Antonella Lettieri Maria Grazia Calandrone was born in Milan in 1964, following her mother’s affair with an older man. A few years earlier, Lucia – that is, Maria Grazia’s biological mother – ha…

Italian Lit Month n.27, by Antonella Lettieri!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.25: The Two Lucas by Wendell Ricketts In 2009, the mononymous Italian singer-songwriter known as Povia came within a hair’s breadth of winning that year’s Sanremo contest, the annual “festival of Italian song,” a mu…

Italian Lit Month n.25, by Wendell Ricketts!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.24: Convivial Poems by Giovanni Pascoli and the Podcast “An Ancient Language for a Modern Soul” by Elena Borelli Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is celebrated as a pioneer of modern Italian poetry, and has been hailed by Seamus Heaney as “one of the greatest poets of all times”. Reflecting the s…

Italian Lit Month n.24, by Elena Borelli!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.23: Women and the Holocaust: Overlooked Stories by Jeanne Bonner One of the most memorable scenes I’ve ever read about the Holocaust comes from a memoir by Giuliana Tedeschi that recounts the birth of a baby boy in a Nazi concentration camp who …

Italian Lit Month n.23, by Jeanne Bonner!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.22: Translation as Travel Escapism: A Cautionary Tale by Scott Belluz “The Americans dreaming of Italy and the Italians dreaming of America have finished their aperitifs by now.” Masneri, Michele. Paradiso (S. Belluz, Trans). Adelphi, 2024. I chuckled…

Italian Lit Month n.22, by Scott Belluz, who encourages us to go off the beaten track as we explore the Italian literary landscape.

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