Translated from the Italian by Patrick Williamson From “A city called six o'clock in the morning”...
Translated from the Italian by Patrick Williamson From “A city called six o'clock in the morning”...
Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1937. The novels Le Avventure di Guizzardi (1973), La...
Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.
Francesca Farina is an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and culture professional. She has published a number of poetry works and a novel, Casa di mortin(www.bertonieditore.it). Literary awards or mentions include the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Eugenio Montale, Premio Tracce-Pablo Neruda, Premio Nazionale per il Sonetto Renato Fucini, and the Premio Scriveredonna.
Alfredo Rienzi (Venosa, 1959) lives in Turin since early childhood. He has published several volumes of poetry, from Contemplando Segni, winner of the X Montale Prize, in 7 poeti del Premio Montale up to the recent Partenze e promesse. Presagi
Dreams and nightmares take turns in every sleep cycle. They even invade the hours awake. There shall no longer be a day without learning the shape of separation, without looking at broken pieces of heart, without longing for acceptance from foreign soils, skins and songs.The Antonym, sought out literary expressions—tales and artefacts built in that sleeplessness and plight.
Giuseppe Pensabene Perez was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto Bolaño.
Brenda Porster writes both in English and Italian. Her poems appeared in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.
Erri De Luca, born in Naples in 1950, has published more than 60 books, numerous collections of short stories and poems, many of which translated in more than 30 languages.
A prominent writer and cultural figure in Brazil, where he lived for the first part of his life, and in Italy, where he lived until his death, Julio Monteiro Martins’ final poetry collection, La grazia di casa mia (The Grace of My Home), was published in Italian in 2013 (Rediviva Edizioni, Milan)