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)
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Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
2025 for me was above all a year of Lalla Romano. Belatedly want to thank everyone on here who read this truly important writer so far! She still deserves more attention but we're that much closer 💙 More on '26 projects soon
For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...
For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM
2025 for me was above all a year of Lalla Romano. Belatedly want to thank everyone on here who read this truly important writer so far! She still deserves more attention but we're that much closer 💙 More on '26 projects soon
For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...
For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...
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Check out full and very effusive review on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/verd...
Verdigris by Michele Mari
From Switzerland we take a little hop and a skip into northern Italy, specifically Lake Maggiore (which indeed has its northern toe sticking...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Check out full and very effusive review on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/verd...
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ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS
86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy
An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now
#booksky #bookreview #italy #readingtheworld
86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy
An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now
#booksky #bookreview #italy #readingtheworld
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS
86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy
An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now
#booksky #bookreview #italy #readingtheworld
86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy
An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now
#booksky #bookreview #italy #readingtheworld
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Now I need to find and read IN FARTHEST SEAS.
Why is there not more Lalla Romano in translation?
Once more reality betrays me.
Why is there not more Lalla Romano in translation?
Once more reality betrays me.
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Now I need to find and read IN FARTHEST SEAS.
Why is there not more Lalla Romano in translation?
Once more reality betrays me.
Why is there not more Lalla Romano in translation?
Once more reality betrays me.
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A SILENCE SHARED is probably the most perfect, beautiful, and meaningful novel I've read in a while. If you want it to have a higher political significance: this is a portrait of revolutionary tenderness. Something to think about.
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A SILENCE SHARED is probably the most perfect, beautiful, and meaningful novel I've read in a while. If you want it to have a higher political significance: this is a portrait of revolutionary tenderness. Something to think about.
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Lalla Romano makes me completely inhabit her world. And yet there's nothing especially intricate or elaborately descriptive in her prose. It's that speaks of things with a lucid care for them that brings them to life.
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Lalla Romano makes me completely inhabit her world. And yet there's nothing especially intricate or elaborately descriptive in her prose. It's that speaks of things with a lucid care for them that brings them to life.
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I'm really enjoying the quiet, unassuming, somehow intimate narration in A SILENCE SHARED by Lalla Romano, as translated by Brian Robert Moore. Also I keep pretending the author is actually Lalla Ward as the Time Lady Romana but that's my personal problem.
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I'm really enjoying the quiet, unassuming, somehow intimate narration in A SILENCE SHARED by Lalla Romano, as translated by Brian Robert Moore. Also I keep pretending the author is actually Lalla Ward as the Time Lady Romana but that's my personal problem.
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Looking forward to reading this.
"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one"
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
An understated yet profound portrayal of love and death
Andrew Martino on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas" as an understated yet profound portrayal of love and death
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December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Looking forward to reading this.
"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one"
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
An understated yet profound portrayal of love and death
Andrew Martino on Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas" as an understated yet profound portrayal of love and death
readingintranslation.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one"
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025!
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
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Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
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November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025!
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
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Delighted to contribute to this diverse feature where @irishtimes.com critics pick their books of the year. Great to see so much fiction in translation included.
My picks were Jia Pingwa, Solvej Balle, Lalla Romano, Sam Pink and Adrian Duncan.
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My picks were Jia Pingwa, Solvej Balle, Lalla Romano, Sam Pink and Adrian Duncan.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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November 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted to contribute to this diverse feature where @irishtimes.com critics pick their books of the year. Great to see so much fiction in translation included.
My picks were Jia Pingwa, Solvej Balle, Lalla Romano, Sam Pink and Adrian Duncan.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
My picks were Jia Pingwa, Solvej Balle, Lalla Romano, Sam Pink and Adrian Duncan.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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"
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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.
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...
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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!
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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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