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 young adult books have been translated from Italian into English. Last October was #ItalianLit month on GLLI, and this wrap-up post … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Italian YA in Translation
#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 literary landscape on a discovery of great Italian books in English translation. Long, not because it has lasted thirty-one days but because … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.50: One Hundred Cantos
#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 dedicated to novels and short stories in their native language of Telugu. They called the program Harshaneeyam, a play on words … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.48: The Harshaneeyam Podcast and Its Italian Literature in Translation Playlist
#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. Though there are many other national and international literary and translation prizes celebrating Italian works, this is a good … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.45: Six Italian Literary and Translation Awards You Should Know About
#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 boundless generosity turns the simple commission into a years-long labor of love, and his paintings allow the boy to vicariously experience … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.28: Glowrushes by Roberto Piumini: A Timeless Italian Masterpiece
#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 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. 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. 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.4: The Florence Review: Italy’s First Bilingual Lit Mag
by Johanna Bishop Florence is full of American students—18,000 of them in 2024 alone. And most, of course, are undergraduates who arrive unequipped with enough Italian to let them simply pick books off the shelf in a shop or library. Back in 2016, the young people in Alessandro Raveggi’s class at NYU Florence had the … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.4: The Florence Review: Italy’s First Bilingual Lit Mag
#ItalianLitMonth n.2: Beppe Fenoglio’s A Private Affair
by Howard Curtis Although not especially well known outside Italy, Beppe Fenoglio is considered one of the most significant Italian writers of the period immediately after World War II. Emerging as he did from the anti-Fascist partisan movement, he wrote mostly (though not exclusively) about the war years. When his novel A Private Affair was … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.2: Beppe Fenoglio’s A Private Affair
#ItalianLitMonth n.1: Italian Lit Month: A Chorus of Voices
by Leah Janeczko Yesterday, September 30th, was the feast day of San Girolamo – St. Jerome – and I’m thankful to this patron saint of translators for ushering us into October, the month of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative’s first blog dedicated to Italian literature in English translation, because this is a monumental and … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.1: Italian Lit Month: A Chorus of Voices
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