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The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the 2024 shortlists for the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), and ALTA First Translation Prize! The winners of these awards will be announced at ALTA’s annual awards ceremony, which will take place on …
The Jews BY NATALIA GINZBURG Translated from Italian by Jenny McPhee The day after the events in Munich, the Catholic Press Association called me to say it was conducting an inquiry regarding the massacre and asked if I would express my opinion. I refused to respond. I told them that I never respond to inquiries.[*] …
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I have the amazing honor of being Rachel Cusk's "conversation partner" at the NYPL! I am a great admirer of Rachel's writing and we share a passion/obsession for the work of Natalia Ginzburg. Rachel wrote an excellent introduction to Ginzburg's Little Virtues, a collection of stunning and groundbreaking essays. "My Vocation" and "He and I" are …
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