Katherine Gregor is our new resident Italianist. Born in Rome, she is an appassionata and translator of Italian literature. In this new monthly column she will introduce you to som
Sicilian literature is famous worldwide, appreciated by readers and taught in universities too. One of the reasons for its success lies in the diverse cultural heritage of Sicily,
I have an issue with Russian. I always have had. And yet for the past few months I’ve longed to speak it, hear it, read it. I crave it. <><><> I grew up wit
From what I understand, you are perfectly trilingual, in Ukrainian, Russian and English. You and your family moved to Los Angeles when you were eight years old. Did you speak any E
Set in a remote Piedmont valley, Linda Tugnoli’s Le colpe degli altri has an unusual protagonist. Guido, now a solitary gardener, has returned to his native region after experien
Nine 1. On June 8, while Kreuzwirt was filling with the BMWs and Mercedes of South Tyrol’s bigwigs, Sibylle had allowed herself a lie-in, since Oskar had decided to keep The Blac
Shortlisted for the 2019 Premio Campiello and set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, this novel is written in the style of an epic poem. It’s a tale of rebellion, of freedom, and o
Although many Anglophone readers will associate twenty-first-century Italian literature with crime novels and gritty social commentary, there is a highly successful genre that must
This is the second of Marion Brunet’s novels to be brilliantly translated into English by Katherine Gregor, and it’s every bit as compelling a story as its predecessor Summer o
The Reindeer Hunters is the second volume in Lars Mytting’s engrossing Norwegian epic trilogy, following on from the mesmerising The Bell in the Lake. It’s now 19
