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John Florio Prize
The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize was established in 1963. As of 1980 it is awarded biannually for the best English translation of a full-length work of literary merit and general interest from Italian. Winners and shortlistees = winner 1963 *Donata Origo, for ''The Deserter'' by Giuseppe Dessi *Eric Mosbacher, for ''Hekura'' by Fosco Maraini 1964 *Angus Davidson, for ''More Roman Tales'' by Alberto Moravia *Professor E. R. Vincent, for ''A Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand'' by Giuseppe Cesare Abba Bletchley Park *H. S. Vere-Hodge, for ''The Odes of |
Society Of Authors
The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and associates. The SoA vets members' contracts and advises on professional issues, as well as providing training, representing authors in collective negotiations with publishers to improve contract terms, lobbying on issues that affect authors such as copyright, UK arts funding and Public Lending Right. The SoA administers a range of grants for writers in need (The Authors' Contingency Fund, The Francis Head Bequest and The P.D. James Memorial Fund) and to fund work in progress (The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust), awarding more than £250,000 to writers each year. The SoA also administers prizes for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translation and drama, including the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. The SoA acts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Meneghello
Luigi Meneghello (16 February 1922 – 26 June 2007) was an Italian contemporary writer and scholar. Biography Luigi Meneghello was born in Malo, a small town in the countryside near Vicenza, on 16 February 1922.Giulio and Laura Lepschy, ‘Luigi Meneghello’ (obituary), ''The Guardian'', 17 August 2007. His father was a craftsman and his mother was a teacher.cronologia , Comune di Malo. Meneghello entered in 1939 the University of to study philosophy. From 1940 to 1942 worked for Paduan newspaper ''Il Veneto''. In the early Forties, he had his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , , ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926 where he remained until his death in 1937. Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His ''Prison Notebooks'' are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources – not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintin Hoare
Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian."Authors , Quintin Hoare" . After studying Modern Languages at , in 1962 Hoare joined the editorial board of '''', serving as its managing editor from 1963 to 1979. He and his wife, the |
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman (1911 Liverpool, Ohio – January 11, 2003) was an American poet and translator. Life Her father died when she was young and her mother when she was just 17. She lived with her brother, Milton, who was attending Harvard Law School, while attending Wellesley College. She lived half the year in her condo overlooking the Charles River; the other half she lived in the Hotel de la Ville, Rome at the top of the Spanish Steps. She is the author of five books of poetry and fifteen books of Italian translations, all poetry except Primo Levi's concentration camp stories. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, French, and Spanish. Her work appeared in ''AGNI'', and ''New York Review of Books''. Awards * 1999 Feldman and John P. Welle Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize * John Florio Prize The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Frenaye
Frances Frenaye (1908-1996) was an American translator of French and Italian literature.Eric Pace ''The New York Times'', April 15, 1998. She translated work by writers including Balzac, Carlo Levi, Ignazio Silone and Elie Wiesel. Works * Natalia Ginzburg: ''The Road to the City'' (Ital.: ''La strada che va in città''), 1942 * Ignazio Silone: ''The Seed Beneath the Snow'' (Ital.: ''Il seme sotto la neve''), 1943 * Natalia Ginzburg: ''The Dry Heart'' (Ital.: ''È stato così''), 1947 * Carlo Levi: ''Christ Stopped at Eboli'' (Ital.: ''Cristo si è fermato a Eboli''), London, Cassell, 1948. * Giovannino Guareschi: ''Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son'' (Ital.: ''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge''), Victor Gollancz, 1952 * Riccardo Bacchelli: ''The Mill on the Po'' (Ital.: ''Il mulino del Po''), 1952 * Alberto Moravia: ''Bitter Honeymoon'' (Ital.: ''Luna di miele, sole di fiele''), 1954 * Giovannino Guareschi: ''Don Camillo's Dilemma'' (Ital.: Il dilemma di Don Camillo), Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi (23 July 1922 – 15 April 2007) was an Italian journalist, writer, feminist and politician, elected to the Italian Parliament in 1968 as an Italian Communist Party candidate and to the European Parliament in 1979 as candidate of the Radical Party.John Francis LaneMaria Macciocchi: Italian dissident feminist at odds with the communist legacy ''The Guardian'', 21 May 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2012. Life Macciocchi was born in Isola del Liri, the child of anti-fascists. She joined the underground Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the German occupation of Rome. In 1950 she became editor of the party's women's magazine ''Vie Nuove''. Then she edited a feminist magazine financed by the PCI, ''Noi donne''. She joined ''l'Unità'', the paper founded by Antonio Gramsci, becoming their foreign correspondent in Algiers and Paris. In the 1960s she lectured at Vincennes University France, and her book ''Pour Gramsci'' was credited with introducing Gramsci's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as '' Ermetismo'' ("Hermeticism"), he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned with futurism. Like many futurists, he took an irredentist position during World War I. Ungaretti debuted as a poet while fighting in the trenches, publishing one of his best-known pieces, '' L'allegria'' ("The Joy"). During the interwar period, Ungaretti worked as a journalist with Benito Mussolini (whom he met during his socialist accession), as well as a foreign-based correspondent for ''Il Popolo d'Italia'' and ''Gazzetta del Popolo''. While briefly associated with the Dadaists, he developed ''Hermeticism'' as a personal take on poetry. After spending seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Creagh
John Patrick Brasier-Creagh, best known as Patrick Creagh (23 October 1930 - 19 September 2012) was a British poet and translator. '''', 2 November 2012. Life Patrick Creagh was educated at and Brasenose College, Oxford. He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960. Creagh r ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosmicomics'' collection of short stories (1965), and the novels ''Invisible Cities'' (1972) and ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. Italo Calvino is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, in Tuscany. Biography Parents Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico '' L. Ariosto'' in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests. In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train (third class) from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the "free intellectual" was the liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were introduced from 1938, he was able to graduate in 1939, writing a thesis on the nineteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Praz
Mario Praz (; September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, ''The Romantic Agony'' (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, erotic and morbid themes that characterised European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries (see '' Femme fatale'' for a reference of one of his chapters). The book was written and published first in Italian as ' in 1930; and the most recent edition was published in Florence by Sansoni in 1996. Biography Praz was the son of Luciano Praz (died 1900), a bank clerk, and his wife, the former Giulia Testa di Marsciano (died 1931), daughter of Count Alcibiade Testa di Marsciano. His stepfather was Carlo Targioni (died 1954), a physician, whom his mother married in 1912. He studied at the University of Bologna (1914–15), received a law degree from the University of Rome (1918), and received a doctorate in literature from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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