Leah Janeczko
@fromtheitalian.bsky.social
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Italian-to-English literary translator
This Wednesday at 10 a.m., join me at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, where I’ll be talking about my Wordplay Playground: The Joy of Translating Puns, Jokes (and Riddles) and Rhymes!
about 1 month ago
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Ilide Carmignani, Vincenzo Latronico and I joined La Lingua Batte (Radio3) to talk about the great efforts being made to help great Italian books travel the globe, the highlight being Ilide’s annual Dall’Italiano al Mondo conference for translators working from Italian.
tinyurl.com/9chpxcv2
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La lingua batte | Traduzioni: dall’italiano al mondo | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound
Traduzioni: dall’italiano al mondo - La lingua batte - In occasione della 5a edizione del convegno annuale "Dall'Italiano al Mondo", un simposio online rivolto a traduttrici e traduttori dall'italiano...
https://tinyurl.com/9chpxcv2
6 months ago
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A Halloween treat: a list of all 50 posts from the 2024 Italian Lit Month blog, in which literary translators propose 100 books, journals and websites for those who love great Italian literature! The list, with descriptions and links, can be downloaded as a pdf here:
leahjaneczko.com/italian-lit-...
7 months ago
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British Centre for Literary Translation
12 months ago
✨ Meet the workshop leader✨ With decades of experience in translation and teaching,
@clarissabotsford.bsky.social
has translated works by authors like Viola Ardone, Elvira Dones, and Alessandro Baricco. Find out more and apply:
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#INTYALITMONTH: Italian YA in Translation
Written by Kim Beeman The list below is loosely, but mostly, young adult books, all translated from Italian into English. As I have discovered in my time in Italy, relatively few middle grade and y…
https://glli-us.org/2025/05/02/intyalitmonth-italy/
12 months ago
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"Lyrically, 'I’m Ready' plays out as a spiritual battle cry, caught in the crossfire between the paralysis of fear and the liberation of action. It’s a narrative of inner conflict, beautifully expressed through lines that balance poetic abstraction with grounded vulnerability."
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“I’m Ready”: The Elephant Man Returns with a Fierce Declaration of Change
The Elephant Man once again refuses to be confined to the peripheries of the alternative music scene. With their latest single “I’m Ready,” the Italian darkwave quartet plunges headfirst into the emot...
https://reviewindie.com/2025/04/im-ready-the-elephant-man-returns-with-a-fierce-declaration-of-change/
about 1 year ago
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In addition to translating Italian literature, I also write song lyrics. Here's the latest music video by the truly amazing band The Elephant Man: "I'm Ready (to go)", the first single from their forthcoming second album!
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I'm Ready (to go)- THE ELEPHANT MAN (Official Video)
YouTube video by Vrec Music Label
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about 1 year ago
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The Booker Prizes
about 1 year ago
Presenting the
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longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators:
thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
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POLICROMIA, two wonderful reasons for poets to visit beautiful Siena in May: a four-day workshop at the Siena Art Institute led by poets Mairéad Byrne & Will Schutt (May 19-22) and an international poetry and translation festival hosting renowned poets (May 22-25).
www.instagram.com/sienaart/?hl...
about 1 year ago
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Calling all Italian-to-English translators! It's time for submissions to ALTA's Italian Prose in Translation Award! And yes, translators may submit their own works!
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about 1 year ago
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Congratulations to
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on winning the John Florio translation prize for Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery, and to runner-up
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social
for Lalla Romano’s A Silence Shared! Thank you both for helping readers discover great Italian literature in English translation!
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over 1 year ago
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Authors Guild Launches "Human Authored" Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature - The Authors Guild
AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is ...
https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-launches-human-authored-certification-to-preserve-authenticity-in-literature/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIRbb9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaysg_MKWX_-Vf_Nwvl9aqaYNB5BoYk6_EWdobg-dad7QNFYirTS9uIu-Q_aem_ckh90K6ONu_oEaUeOK1Thg
over 1 year ago
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Read Edith Bruck's powerful essay translated from the Italian into English by Jeanne Bonner
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My Alma Mater Is Auschwitz, by Edith Bruck
Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck gave the following address in Italian in 2018. WLT is publishing this English translation on January 27, 2025, as the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/my-alma-mater-auschwitz-edith-bruck
over 1 year ago
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Next week in New York City, from January 14th to 16th: Multipli Forti, a celebration of Italian literature in translation!
over 1 year ago
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Just two titles translated for Amici della Scala in 2024: pochi ma buoni!
over 1 year ago
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Leah Janeczko
Lit Hub
over 1 year ago
From the Booker to the Pulitzer, the Nebula to the Edgar, here are the award-winning novels of 2024.
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The Award-Winning Novels of 2024
The Books That Took Home This Year's Biggest Literary Prizes
https://bookmarks.reviews/the-award-winning-novels-of-2024/
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Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo is on the 2024 John Florio Prize shortlist! Many thanks to the
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
and to the Italian Cultural Institute, London. And congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, Brian Robert Moore, Gregory Conti and Jenny McPhee!
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over 1 year ago
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Leah Janeczko
The Society of Authors
over 1 year ago
Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists 41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded. See the full shortlists here:
authr.uk/TP24
Shop the shortlists -
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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists - The Society of Authors
There are 41 shortlisted works across eight prizes
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Italian Lit Month n.50 by Leah Janeczko! In our final post I leave you with one last recommended title, links to all our 50 articles, and suggestions on how to learn about great new Italian books even now that our blog is over. Curating Italian Lit Month has been such a joy. Grazie e arrivederci!
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#ItalianLitMonth n.50: One Hundred Cantos
by Leah Janeczko Dear reader, October has been quite a month! San Girolamo – St. Jerome, patron saint of translators – has accompanied us down a long, scenic, winding path through the Italian liter…
https://glli-us.org/2024/11/04/italianlitmonth-n-50-one-hundred-cantos/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.49, by Michael Palma! Join us daily through post n.50 to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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#ItalianLitMonth n.49: A New Translation of Dante: The Music I Kept Hearing in My Head
by Michael Palma Dante’s contemporary fortunes have been especially various, I believe, in the United States and Great Britain, where translations have appeared, and continue to appear, at a remark…
https://glli-us.org/2024/11/03/italianlitmonth-n-49-a-new-translation-of-dante-the-music-i-kept-hearing-in-my-head/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.48, by Leah Janeczko! Join us through post n. 50 to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators! If you enjoy literature in translation, you'll love this podcast! In this piece we look at Harshaneeyam and the five books featured in its Italian lit playlist.
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#ItalianLitMonth n.48: The Harshaneeyam Podcast and Its Italian Literature in Translation Playlist
by Leah Janeczko Three years ago, three friends in India who loved reading – Harsha, Giri and Anil, who had been friends for 25 years and studied mechanical engineering together – started a podcast…
https://glli-us.org/2024/11/02/italianlitmonth-n-48-the-harshaneeyam-podcast-and-its-italian-literature-in-translation-playlist/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.47, by Michael F. Moore! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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#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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/11/01/italianlitmonth-n-47-reclaiming-puglia-in-mario-desiatis-spatriati/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/30/italianlitmonth-n-46-qa-with-translator-jamie-richards-conducted-by-jeanne-bonner/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.45, by Leah Janeczko! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators! Full blog here:
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/28/italianlitmonth-n-45-six-italian-literary-and-translation-awards-you-should-know-about/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.44, by Stephen Sartarelli! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/27/italianlitmonth-n-44-on-translating-camilleri-notes-from-the-purer-linguistic-sphere-of-translation/
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Italian Lit Month n.43, by Howard Curtis! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/26/italianlitmonth-n-43-gianfranco-calligarichs-last-summer-in-the-city/
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Italian Lit Month n.42, by Lori Hetherington! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/25/italianlitmonth-n-42-an-interview-with-italian-authorpreneur-filippo-iannarone/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.41, by Richard Dixon! Vice Versa: a brilliant, helpful program for literary translators. Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/24/italianlitmonth-n-41-vice-versa-translators-across-the-language-divide/
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Italian Lit Month n.40, by Jack Zipes! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and 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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/23/italianlitmonth-n-40-jack-zipes-encounters-with-gianni-rodari-and-his-grammar-of-fantasy/
over 1 year ago
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Italian Lit Month n.39, by Ruth Clarke! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/23/italianlitmonth-n-39-translating-sensitive-content-in-from-another-world-by-evelina-santangelo/
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Italian Lit Month n.38, by Catherine Theis! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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 …
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/22/italianlitmonth-n-38-conversations-a-look-inside-jolanda-insanas-slashing-sounds/
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Italian Lit Month n.37, by Alex Valente! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/22/italianlitmonth-n-37-playing-pretend-in-dantes-inferno-and-other-italian-stories/
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Italian Lit Month n.36, by Karen Whittle! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/20/italianlitmonth-n-36-walking-the-philosophical-tightrope/
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Italian Lit Month n.35, by Katherine Gregor! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/20/italianlitmonth-n-35-katherine-gregor-and-babas-discuss-how-to-train-your-human-a-cats-guide/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGB2zJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY9qt_eI6o21Snje0oVnGRPxUtuhIVaRDmQinVa4PS7ZbXAOZmpUjh9e6w_aem_MS3wz-xy3dsnkv-r_xISiw
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Italian Lit Month n.34, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/20/italianlitmonth-n-34-natalia-ginzburg-and-italian-women-writers-in-translation/
over 1 year ago
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Leah Janeczko
Richard Dixon
over 1 year ago
Italian Lit Month - here's a new initiative from Italian-to-English literary translators to celebrate Italy as Guest of Honor at the forthcoming Frankfurter Buchmesse: a daily blog hosted by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) for the month of October -
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Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
Act Locally, Read Globally
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Italian Lit Month n.33, by Oonagh Stransky! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/19/italianlitmonth-n-33-abandonment-an-eritrean-italian-story/
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Italian Lit Month n.32, by Emma Mandley! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/18/italianlitmonth-n-32-translating-art-books-inside-pompeii-by-luigi-spina/
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Italian Lit Month n.31, by Clarissa Botsford! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/18/italianlitmonth-n-31-no-means-no-or-does-it-a-moving-testament-to-a-young-womans-courage/
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Italian Lit Month n.30, by Johanna Bishop! A rich, generous variety of contemporary Italian poetry! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/17/italianlitmonth-n-30-an-enticing-introduction-to-contemporary-italian-poetry/
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Italian Lit Month n.29, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/17/italianlitmonth-n-29-reading-in-translation-shaping-a-culture-of-reviewing-italian-literature-in-translation/
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Italian Lit Month n.28, by Leah Janeczko! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/16/italianlitmonth-n-28-glowrushes-by-roberto-piumini-a-timeless-italian-masterpiece/
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Italian Lit Month n.26, by Lisa Mullenneaux! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/14/italianlitmonth-n-26-born-a-rebel-is-a-cry-for-gender-justice/
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Italian Lit Month n.27, by Antonella Lettieri! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/16/italianlitmonth-n-27-maria-grazia-calandrones-your-little-matter/
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Italian Lit Month n.25, by Wendell Ricketts! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/14/italianlitmonth-n-25-the-two-lucas/
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Italian Lit Month n.24, by Elena Borelli! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/13/italianlitmonth-n-24-convivial-poems-by-giovanni-pascoli-and-the-podcast-an-ancient-language-for-a-modern-soul/
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Italian Lit Month n.23, by Jeanne Bonner! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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 …
https://glli-us.org/2024/10/13/italianlitmonth-n-23-women-and-the-holocaust-overlooked-stories/
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Italian Lit Month n.22, by Scott Belluz, who encourages us to go off the beaten track as we explore the Italian literary landscape. Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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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…
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Italian Lit Month n.21, by Karen Whittle! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!
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#ItalianLitMonth n.21: Exorcising the Fear of What Is Different: The Art Book Segunda Pele by Zoè Gruni
by Karen Whittle Putting on her second skin, in performances consisting of photography, drawing, sculpture, video and installation, Italian artist Zoè Gruni seeks to experience/experiment life thro…
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Italian Lit Month n.20, by Paolo Grossi, Editorial Director of
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#ItalianLitMonth n.20: newitalianbooks.it: Your Portal to the World of Italian Publishing
by Paolo Grossi newitalianbooks.it is the web portal dedicated to the promotion of Italian books worldwide, comparable to similar European websites such as the German litrix.de and new-books-in-ger…
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