THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD, Gianni Solla's debut novel in English, is published this month in my translation for HarperVia. Set in southern Italy during World War II, it's the story of Davide, his escape from a cruel family life and his salvation through the liberating power of language.

One year after Italian Lit Month, hosted by Globel Literature in Libraries Initiative, New Italian Books has reposted all fifty articles: www.newitalianbooks.it/wp-content/u...

I've had the honour of translating HOPE:The Autobiography, by Pope Francis, published this month by Penguin Random House and well reviewed throughout the world - the first autobiography of a sitting pope, told in an easy, intimate style, with vivid descriptions, and a voice of profound empathy.

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo is on the 2024 John Florio Prize shortlist! Many thanks to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social and to the Italian Cultural Institute, London. And congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, Brian Robert Moore, Gregory Conti and Jenny McPhee!

I'm presenting my translation of "The World Machine", by Paolo Volponi, published by Seagull Books, at the Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Square, London, on Monday 25 November at 6.30 pm, in conversation with Francesca Limana, David Best. Information at: iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

I was honoured to be one of 18 translators invited to the Frankfurt Bookfair to represent 18 languages throughout Europe, guests of Salone Internazionale del Libro Torino. Thank you Lorenza Honorati and the mythical Ilide Carmignani. So many meetings and - best of all - so many chance encounters!

My thanks to the Global Literature in Libraries Initative and to Leah Janeczko, curator of Italian Lit Month, for featuring my translation of The World Machine by Paolo Volponi at: glli-us.org/2024/10/09/i...

Italian Lit Month n.5, by Lisa Mullenneaux, who interviews Jenny McPhee

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Italian Lit Month - here's a new initiative from Italian-to-English literary translators to celebrate Italy as Guest of Honor at the forthcoming Frankfurter Buchmesse: a daily blog hosted by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) for the month of October - glli-us.org/articles/

The poetry of Eugenio De Signoribus deserves a wider readership in the English speaking world. My translations of four of his poems have recently appeared in the World Poetry Review: worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/13/f...

New Italian Books have asked me to write a piece about the book I would like to translate. Here it is: www.newitalianbooks.it/canto-di-dar...

Anish Kapoor - "Untrue Unreal" - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence - "versality, discord, entropy and ephemerality." An unforgettable exhibition closing February 4th: www.palazzostrozzi.org/archivio/mos...

Centenary celebrations in Urbino for poet and novelist Paolo Volponi, twice winner of the Premio Strega, begin on February 6th: centenariovolponi.uniurb.it

LRB Bookshop London, current bestsellers:
at no.2 - *How to Spot a Fascist* by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon and Alastair McEwen