Brian Robert Moore
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social
Literary translator from the Italian: Michele Mari (Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood), Lalla Romano (A Silence Shared and In Farthest Seas), Walter Siti (Paradise Overload)
ICYMI, a nice and long – and very lovely – review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas. By Eliza Browning in @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, with connections to Ernaux, Woolf, Duras and more. @pushkinpress.com
"The narrative is distilled into dazzling shards of memory" 🌊
"The narrative is distilled into dazzling shards of memory" 🌊
"Romano’s memoir is an early example of feminist life writing, comparable to the work of not just of Ernaux, but also the memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and the autobiography of Marguerite Duras."
Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
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Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
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Minima Mortalia: On Lalla Romano’s “In Farthest Seas” - Cleveland Review of Books
The impression is that Romano is attempting to stretch time in order to prolong her husband's life, summoning memories of his past selves as a form of resistance against death.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ICYMI, a nice and long – and very lovely – review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas. By Eliza Browning in @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, with connections to Ernaux, Woolf, Duras and more. @pushkinpress.com
"The narrative is distilled into dazzling shards of memory" 🌊
"The narrative is distilled into dazzling shards of memory" 🌊
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"Romano’s memoir is an early example of feminist life writing, comparable to the work of not just of Ernaux, but also the memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and the autobiography of Marguerite Duras."
Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
clereviewofbooks.com/lalla-romano...
Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
clereviewofbooks.com/lalla-romano...
Minima Mortalia: On Lalla Romano’s “In Farthest Seas” - Cleveland Review of Books
The impression is that Romano is attempting to stretch time in order to prolong her husband's life, summoning memories of his past selves as a form of resistance against death.
clereviewofbooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"Romano’s memoir is an early example of feminist life writing, comparable to the work of not just of Ernaux, but also the memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and the autobiography of Marguerite Duras."
Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
clereviewofbooks.com/lalla-romano...
Eliza Browning on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas"
clereviewofbooks.com/lalla-romano...
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From the archive for Lalla Romano, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, my thoughts on A SILENCE SHARED.
Set in the Italian countryside in #WW2, this dreamlike story is an evocative ode to stillness and silence, beautifully translated by @brianrobmoore.bsky.social. 💙📚
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Set in the Italian countryside in #WW2, this dreamlike story is an evocative ode to stillness and silence, beautifully translated by @brianrobmoore.bsky.social. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/a...
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
There’s been something of a resurgence of interest in ‘classic’ Italian women writers in recent years, largely focusing on Natalia Ginzburg, whose work I very much enjoy. (Her ess…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
From the archive for Lalla Romano, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, my thoughts on A SILENCE SHARED.
Set in the Italian countryside in #WW2, this dreamlike story is an evocative ode to stillness and silence, beautifully translated by @brianrobmoore.bsky.social. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/a...
Set in the Italian countryside in #WW2, this dreamlike story is an evocative ode to stillness and silence, beautifully translated by @brianrobmoore.bsky.social. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/a...
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Congrats to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious
Wonderful news from our former slug-in-residence Brian! And if you haven't read VERDIGRIS yet, what are you doing – slugs, nazis, the most pyrotechnical translation of vernacular you'll ever read. Run don't walk, etc.
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, pub. And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social!
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November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congrats to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious
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Wonderful news from our former slug-in-residence Brian! And if you haven't read VERDIGRIS yet, what are you doing – slugs, nazis, the most pyrotechnical translation of vernacular you'll ever read. Run don't walk, etc.
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, pub. And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social!
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wonderful news from our former slug-in-residence Brian! And if you haven't read VERDIGRIS yet, what are you doing – slugs, nazis, the most pyrotechnical translation of vernacular you'll ever read. Run don't walk, etc.
Really honored to receive this for my translation of Michele's beautiful and thrilling book, and very grateful to ALTA and to the judges for what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who's read this one so far – this slug's trail is a long one! 💚🐛
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, pub. And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social!
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Really honored to receive this for my translation of Michele's beautiful and thrilling book, and very grateful to ALTA and to the judges for what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who's read this one so far – this slug's trail is a long one! 💚🐛
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In Farthest Seas Lalla Romano Review
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Robert Moore, reviewed by Rosa Picard "For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from the noise of the world one note, and surround them with silence," wrote Lalla…
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Robert Moore, reviewed by Rosa Picard "For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from the noise of the world one note, and surround them with silence," wrote Lalla…
In Farthest Seas Lalla Romano Review
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Robert Moore, reviewed by Rosa Picard "For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from the noise of the world one note, and surround them with silence," wrote Lalla Romano in A Silence Shared. Indeed, In Farthest Seas is strung from plucked details, simply and finely formed in Romano’s crystalline prose.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In Farthest Seas Lalla Romano Review
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Robert Moore, reviewed by Rosa Picard "For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from the noise of the world one note, and surround them with silence," wrote Lalla…
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano, tr. Robert Moore, reviewed by Rosa Picard "For me, to write has always been to pluck from the dense and complex fabric of life, some image, from the noise of the world one note, and surround them with silence," wrote Lalla…
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@brianrobmoore.bsky.social hey, read your translation of Mari's the Black Arrow last night and as soon as I realised the protagonist was interrogating the different translations of English to Italian, the metatextual joy of realising I was reading it translated back was brilliant...
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Editor's Choice - The autumn months are the perfect time for serious book indulgence as the nights draw in and the air gets chillier.
For more information on my book choices, go to Substack > writersretreatitaly.substack.com/p/italian-au...
For more information on my book choices, go to Substack > writersretreatitaly.substack.com/p/italian-au...
Italian Autumn Reads
Editor's Choice: As the nights draw in and the air gets chillier, the autumn months are the perfect time for some serious book indulgence.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Editor's Choice - The autumn months are the perfect time for serious book indulgence as the nights draw in and the air gets chillier.
For more information on my book choices, go to Substack > writersretreatitaly.substack.com/p/italian-au...
For more information on my book choices, go to Substack > writersretreatitaly.substack.com/p/italian-au...
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It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:
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feat. In Farthest Seas, writing the sequel to THE SENTENCE, Strange Horizons @ 25, Einstein’s Dreams, and more.
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feat. In Farthest Seas, writing the sequel to THE SENTENCE, Strange Horizons @ 25, Einstein’s Dreams, and more.
Words for Worlds - Issue 105
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
feat. In Farthest Seas, writing the sequel to THE SENTENCE, Strange Horizons @ 25, Einstein’s Dreams, and more.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
feat. In Farthest Seas, writing the sequel to THE SENTENCE, Strange Horizons @ 25, Einstein’s Dreams, and more.
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I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!
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September 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Spending the day with @brianrobmoore.bsky.social’s wonderful translation of Lalla Romano’s In Farthest Seas.
September 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Spending the day with @brianrobmoore.bsky.social’s wonderful translation of Lalla Romano’s In Farthest Seas.
Some readers & friends on here asked if this would be recorded, so I'm happy to share my conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHC...
Can't watch a video of myself but I assume it's all there! @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
Can't watch a video of myself but I assume it's all there! @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Some readers & friends on here asked if this would be recorded, so I'm happy to share my conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHC...
Can't watch a video of myself but I assume it's all there! @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
Can't watch a video of myself but I assume it's all there! @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
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A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
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My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers.
Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.
Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
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Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.
Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
In Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed
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September 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers.
Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.
Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.
Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com
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Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉
🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes:
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award
Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h
🏆ALTA First Translation Prize
🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award
🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award
Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉
ICYMI, for @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about why you’ll never read another author like Lalla Romano. With some reflections on what it meant for me to translate a book as devastating & before-its-time as In Farthest Seas. @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social
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Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed
“It’s nice to have confirmation, in the midst of a literary world where everyone loses their minds or in some way grows stupid, that you are a serious person, forging ahead with your story, your li…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ICYMI, for @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about why you’ll never read another author like Lalla Romano. With some reflections on what it meant for me to translate a book as devastating & before-its-time as In Farthest Seas. @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social
lithub.com/lalla-romano...
lithub.com/lalla-romano...
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@brianrobmoore.bsky.social examines autofiction, grief, and Lalla Romano’s ahead of its time masterpiece, In Farthest Seas.
buff.ly/nFnYaVY
buff.ly/nFnYaVY
Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed
“It’s nice to have confirmation, in the midst of a literary world where everyone loses their minds or in some way grows stupid, that you are a serious person, forging ahead with your story, your li…
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social examines autofiction, grief, and Lalla Romano’s ahead of its time masterpiece, In Farthest Seas.
buff.ly/nFnYaVY
buff.ly/nFnYaVY
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TONIGHT!!
Don't miss an amazing event at Rizzoli Bookstore!
Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, translator, in conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano
September 4 at 6PM EST, be sure to register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-farthes...
Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, translator, in conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano
September 4 at 6PM EST, be sure to register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-farthes...
September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
TONIGHT!!
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New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02
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Book post!
A Silence Shared by Italian writer Lalla Romano, translated by Brian Robert Moore.
Nothing Grows by Midnight by Torberg Nedreaas, translated from Norwegian by Bibbi Lee (recommended by @radzpandit.bsky.social I think?).
A Silence Shared by Italian writer Lalla Romano, translated by Brian Robert Moore.
Nothing Grows by Midnight by Torberg Nedreaas, translated from Norwegian by Bibbi Lee (recommended by @radzpandit.bsky.social I think?).
August 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Book post!
A Silence Shared by Italian writer Lalla Romano, translated by Brian Robert Moore.
Nothing Grows by Midnight by Torberg Nedreaas, translated from Norwegian by Bibbi Lee (recommended by @radzpandit.bsky.social I think?).
A Silence Shared by Italian writer Lalla Romano, translated by Brian Robert Moore.
Nothing Grows by Midnight by Torberg Nedreaas, translated from Norwegian by Bibbi Lee (recommended by @radzpandit.bsky.social I think?).