#ItalianLitMonth n.15: From Italian to the World: Literary Translators Help Italian Books Travel the Globe

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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 the 2024 Frankfurter Buchmesse, at which Italy is Guest of Honor, for an extraordinary edition of Dall’Italiano al Mondo, an international conference … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.15: From Italian to the World: Literary Translators Help Italian Books Travel the Globe

#ItalianLitMonth n.14: The Nature of Reality and the Human Condition in 1950s Rural Italy, in Paolo Volponi’s The World Machine

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by Richard Dixon The World Machine is a vivid novelistic portrayal of rural life in postwar Italy. Its narrator, a small-time farmer, is one of life’s misfits, a young man who generally manages to play his cards wrongly. He is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.14: The Nature of Reality and the Human Condition in 1950s Rural Italy, in Paolo Volponi’s The World Machine

#ItalianLitMonth n.13: Italian Graphic Narrative in Translation

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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 order to ensure the continuation of the art form. Despite being one of the only consistently growing sectors in the book industry, … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.13: Italian Graphic Narrative in Translation

#ItalianLitMonth n. 12: On Fabio Pusterla’s Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems

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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 counterpart, the god of the underworld. That fact might suggest that many of the poems in Brief Homage to Pluto … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n. 12: On Fabio Pusterla’s Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems

#ItalianLitMonth n.11: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part Two

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by Katherine Gregor To read Part One of this article, click here. If Italian dialectal idioms are sometimes hard to convey into standard Italian, translating them into English would make Hercules throw in the towel. When considering how to translate dialect I rejected the option of using a UK regional dialect as an alternative because … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.11: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part Two

#ItalianLitMonth n.10: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part One

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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 could help me with those expressions I couldn't find translated or explained on line. They kindly obliged. A … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.10: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part One

#ItalianLitMonth n. 9: Plants Are Us: Stefano Mancuso’s Phytopolis

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by Gregory Conti In this latest book by Italy’s best-known botanist, Stefano Mancuso speaks to his readers where the vast majority of them live, in cities. More and more, and the summer of 2024 is only the most recent and to date most extreme example, that means cities that are so overheated they are at … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n. 9: Plants Are Us: Stefano Mancuso’s Phytopolis

#ItalianLitMonth n. 8: Translators Aloud and Its Italian Playlist

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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. Though only four years old, this “voice of translated literature” has already become a household name in the translator community and has gained nearly … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n. 8: Translators Aloud and Its Italian Playlist

#ItalianLitMonth n.7: Translating for Children: Cloud Atlas by Sarah Zambello and Susy Zanella

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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, especially when it comes to non-fiction. Children in different countries reach different stages in their education at different times and it … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.7: Translating for Children: Cloud Atlas by Sarah Zambello and Susy Zanella

#ItalianLitMonth n.6: Who’s That Girl? A Reader’s Guide to The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan

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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 of their shared interest in certain themes and the city of Naples. But we won’t be talking about that here. The Mortal and … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.6: Who’s That Girl? A Reader’s Guide to The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan