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November 20, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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October 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.13, by Jamie Richards!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.13: Italian Graphic Narrative in Translation
by Jamie Richards Recently I attended a packed celebration of Simon Hanselmann’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles where he concluded by exhorting everyone to “read more comics!” in o…
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October 8, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.10, by Katherine Gregor!

Part one of her piece about Italian dialects and her translation The Florios of Siciliy.

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#ItalianLitMonth n.10: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part One
by Katherine Gregor I was struggling with the copious passages in regional dialect in a novel I was translating from Italian, so I asked my publishers to put me in touch with the author so that she…
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October 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.16, by Lori Hetherington!

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#ItalianLitMonth n. 16: Translating Tuscan Tales
by Lori Hetherington The old woman finished peeling a chestnut and, after handing it to the youngest of her grandchildren, began to speak with her sweet voice and the pure accent of Tuscany’s mount…
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October 10, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.28, by Leah Janeczko!

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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…
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October 16, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.8, by Leah Janeczko, with Charlie Coombe and @tinakover.bsky.social!

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#ItalianLitMonth n. 8: Translators Aloud and Its Italian Playlist
by Leah Janeczko In various posts in our Italian Lit Month blog, you’ll find links to Translators Aloud, a YouTube channel that features videos of translators reading passages from their works. Tho…
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October 6, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.3, by Nanette McGuinness

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#ItalianLitMonth n.3: Three Fun, Fascinating Italian Books for Children and Young Adults
by Nanette McGuinness What do the books that I translate from Italian into English have in common? They’re fascinating and fun—and they also vary greatly. Take, for example, my three most recent tr…
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October 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.5, by Lisa Mullenneaux, who interviews Jenny McPhee

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#ItalianLitMonth n.5: Jenny McPhee, Translator of Lies and Sorcery, Interviewed by Lisa Mullenneaux
Jenny McPhee is the author of the novels The Center of Things, No Ordinary Matter, and A Man of No Moon and co-authored Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Her translations from…
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October 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.39, by Ruth Clarke!

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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…
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October 23, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.17, by Chenxin Jiang with Geoffrey Brock!

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#ItalianLitMonth n. 17: Geoffrey Brock on His Translation of Silvia Vecchini’s Young Adult Novel Before Nightfall
Chenxin Jiang talks to Geoffrey Brock about his translation of Silvia Vecchini’s Before Nightfall, a young adult novel about the siblings Carlo and Emma. Carlo is a teenager who happens to be…
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October 10, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.40, by Jack Zipes!

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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…
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October 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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A Q&A with Veronica Raimo and Leah Janeczko, author and translator of Lost on Me | The Booker Prizes
With Lost on Me longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books
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April 6, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.25, by Wendell Ricketts!

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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…
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October 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.18, by Ruth Chester!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.18: Encounters Through Translation
by Ruth Chester I’d like to tell you about my latest translated book, Translating Concepts: Metamorphosis Through Encounter by Stefano Arduini, which is coming out with Routledge later this year. A…
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October 11, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.34, by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva!

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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…
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October 20, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.12, by Will Schutt!

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#ItalianLitMonth n. 12: On Fabio Pusterla’s Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems
by Will Schutt The Pluto that appears in the title of the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla’s selected poetry in English is not the planet. It isn’t the Disney character, either. It is Hades’ Roman…
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October 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.35, by Katherine Gregor!

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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…
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October 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.23, by Jeanne Bonner!

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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 …
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October 13, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards!

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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…
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October 30, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.7, by Emma Mandley!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.7: Translating for Children: Cloud Atlas by Sarah Zambello and Susy Zanella
by Emma Mandley It’s easy to make the mistake of thinking that translating for children is going to be easier than translating for adults: in fact, I’ve usually found the reverse to be true, especi…
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October 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.20, by Paolo Grossi, Editorial Director of newitalianbooks.it, a site worth bookmarking!

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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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October 12, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Italian Lit Month n.6, by Oonagh Stransky!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.6: Who’s That Girl? A Reader’s Guide to The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan
by Oonagh Stransky Domenico Starnone, born in Naples in 1943, is one of Italy’s greatest living authors. His name is often mentioned in connection to the mysterious figure of Elena Ferrante because…
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October 4, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.45, by Leah Janeczko!

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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…
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October 28, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Italian Lit Month n.15, by Leah Janeczko with Dall’Italiano al Mondo!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.15: From Italian to the World: Literary Translators Help Italian Books Travel the Globe
by Leah Janeczko October 16th will be an exciting start to an exciting book fair during a truly exciting year for Italian publishing! That morning, translators from around the globe will meet at th…
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October 9, 2024 at 9:46 PM