Leah Janeczko

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A Halloween treat: a list of all 50 posts from the 2024 Italian Lit Month blog, in which literary translators propose 100 books, journals and websites for those who love great Italian literature! The list, with descriptions and links, can be downloaded as a pdf here: leahjaneczko.com/italian-lit-...

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✨ Meet the workshop leader✨ With decades of experience in translation and teaching, @clarissabotsford.bsky.social has translated works by authors like Viola Ardone, Elvira Dones, and Alessandro Baricco.

Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

#INTYALITMONTH: Italian YA in Translation Written by Kim Beeman The list below is loosely, but mostly, young adult books, all translated from Italian into English. As I have discovered in my time in Italy, relatively few middle grade and y…

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Read the full review by Jacob Aiden of Jamsphere here: jamsphere.com/newreleases/...

“I’m Ready”: The Elephant Man Returns with a Fierce Declaration of Change The Elephant Man once again refuses to be confined to the peripheries of the alternative music scene. With their latest single “I’m Ready,” the Italian darkwave quartet plunges headfirst into the emot...

"Lyrically, 'I’m Ready' plays out as a spiritual battle cry, caught in the crossfire between the paralysis of fear and the liberation of action. It’s a narrative of inner conflict, beautifully expressed through lines that balance poetic abstraction with grounded vulnerability."

YouTube video by Vrec Music Label I'm Ready (to go)- THE ELEPHANT MAN (Official Video)

In addition to translating Italian literature, I also write song lyrics. Here's the latest music video by the truly amazing band The Elephant Man: "I'm Ready (to go)", the first single from their forthcoming second album!

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Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

POLICROMIA, two wonderful reasons for poets to visit beautiful Siena in May: a four-day workshop at the Siena Art Institute led by poets Mairéad Byrne & Will Schutt (May 19-22) and an international poetry and translation festival hosting renowned poets (May 22-25). www.instagram.com/sienaart/?hl...

Calling all Italian-to-English translators! It's time for submissions to ALTA's Italian Prose in Translation Award! And yes, translators may submit their own works!

Congratulations to @jennymcphee.bsky.social on winning the John Florio translation prize for Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery, and to runner-up @brianrobmoore.bsky.social for Lalla Romano’s A Silence Shared! Thank you both for helping readers discover great Italian literature in English translation!

Authors Guild Launches "Human Authored" Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature - The Authors Guild AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is ...

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Read Edith Bruck's powerful essay translated from the Italian into English by Jeanne Bonner

Next week in New York City, from January 14th to 16th: Multipli Forti, a celebration of Italian literature in translation!

Just two titles translated for Amici della Scala in 2024: pochi ma buoni!

The Award-Winning Novels of 2024 The Books That Took Home This Year's Biggest Literary Prizes

From the Booker to the Pulitzer, the Nebula to the Edgar, here are the award-winning novels of 2024.

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo is on the 2024 John Florio Prize shortlist! Many thanks to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social and to the Italian Cultural Institute, London. And congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, Brian Robert Moore, Gregory Conti and Jenny McPhee!

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists - The Society of Authors There are 41 shortlisted works across eight prizes

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists
41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded.
See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24
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#ItalianLitMonth n.50: One Hundred Cantos by Leah Janeczko Dear reader, October has been quite a month! San Girolamo – St. Jerome, patron saint of translators – has accompanied us down a long, scenic, winding path through the Italian liter…

Italian Lit Month n.50 by Leah Janeczko!

In our final post I leave you with one last recommended title, links to all our 50 articles, and suggestions on how to learn about great new Italian books even now that our blog is over. Curating Italian Lit Month has been such a joy. Grazie e arrivederci!

#ItalianLitMonth n.49: A New Translation of Dante: The Music I Kept Hearing in My Head by Michael Palma Dante’s contemporary fortunes have been especially various, I believe, in the United States and Great Britain, where translations have appeared, and continue to appear, at a remark…

Italian Lit Month n.49, by Michael Palma!

Join us daily through post n.50 to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.48: The Harshaneeyam Podcast and Its Italian Literature in Translation Playlist by Leah Janeczko Three years ago, three friends in India who loved reading – Harsha, Giri and Anil, who had been friends for 25 years and studied mechanical engineering together – started a podcast…

Italian Lit Month n.48, by Leah Janeczko!

Join us through post n. 50 to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

If you enjoy literature in translation, you'll love this podcast! In this piece we look at Harshaneeyam and the five books featured in its Italian lit playlist.

#ItalianLitMonth n.47: Reclaiming Puglia in Mario Desiati’s Spatriati by Michael F. Moore Martina Franca, in Puglia, is the hometown of the writer Mario Desiati, and the setting of almost all of his novels. The town, and indeed the region as a whole, is so ubiquitous…

Italian Lit Month n.47, by Michael F. Moore!

Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.46: Q&A with Translator Jamie Richards Conducted by Jeanne Bonner by Jeanne Bonner Jamie Richards has translated the works of some of the most celebrated writers working in Italy today, including Igiaba Scego and Viola di Grado. She won the 2024 National Translat…

Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards!

Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.45: Six Italian Literary and Translation Awards You Should Know About by Leah Janeczko They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if the cover boasts one of these six awards, it means that judges somewhere in the world have deemed the book shelfworthy. Tho…

Italian Lit Month n.45, by Leah Janeczko!

Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators! Full blog here: glli-us.org/articles/

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#ItalianLitMonth n.44: On Translating Camilleri: Notes from the Purer Linguistic Sphere of Translation by Stephen Sartarelli I have always believed—at least when translating prose—that a literary translator should be like the arbiter or umpire of a sporting event: the less noticed the better. Whenev…

Italian Lit Month n.44, by Stephen Sartarelli!

Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.43: Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City by Howard Curtis Gianfranco Calligarich’s Last Summer in the City was first published in Italy in 1973, when its author, like the book’s protagonist, was a young journalist in Rome: this was his fi…

Italian Lit Month n.43, by Howard Curtis!

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#ItalianLitMonth n.42: An Interview with Italian ‘Authorpreneur’ Filippo Iannarone by Lori Hetherington Italian author Filippo Iannarone began investing in his writing ten years ago. His first book, a historical mystery entitled Il Complotto Toscanini, was published traditionally…

Italian Lit Month n.42, by Lori Hetherington!

Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors and translators!

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