Chilean writer and journalist Luis Sepúlveda (1949 – 2020) was the author of nearly twenty novels, articles, screenplays and a…
The Italianist: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About
My first article for The Italianist appeared a year ago this month. I don’t know about you but I can’t…
A publisher I once tried to interest in translating Italian fairy-tales said to me, “We don’t think of Italy when…
When Dolores loses her eighteen-year-old daughter to cancer, her three friends drop everything – their own families, jobs, boyfriends and…
Friuli, Italy, on the Austro-Hungarian border, 1915. An army officer interrupts Sunday Mass with a plea for help. The Italian…
Piedmont, 1969. The lifeless bodies of two missing children are unearthed after an anonymous letter is received by the local…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…
Fifty bridges, sketched in black, bathed in blue and white. Bridges built using stone or timber, made of powerful tree…
