When we asked our Italian writers and translators to send us their postcards from around Italy, we suggested they offer…
The Italian Riveter
We celebrate Italian literature in Ireland in 2022 with two authors who both rode the twentieth century’s wave of political…
‘Are you from Vigata?’ a lovely Scottish lady asked me the moment she heard about my Sicilian origins. Edinburgh was…
‘Die with memories, not dreams’, is the motto etched on my favourite bench in Belgrave Square Garden, opposite the Italian…
It’s always dangerous for a writer to echo George Orwell; few can hope to equal the lucidity and power of…
For about thirty years, I worked outside my native Italy – first as a teacher of Italian literature at the…