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Jul 3, 2023 · By Domenico Starnone. Buy Book. The House on Via Gemito won the prestigious Strega Prize in 2001, establishing Starnone as one of Italy’s foremost writers. But his work wasn’t widely known in ...
An Interview with Domenico Starnone. A uthor of twenty books, including novels, short stories, and essays, Domenico Starnone is one of the most prominent Italian writers today and one of the most acute observers of postwar Italian society. With a merciless and yet sympathetic eye, he investigates the multiple ties that define, imprison, and ...
Oct 11, 2021 · Europa Editions began publishing English translations of Domenico Starnone’s work in 2009 with First Execution, translated by Antony Shugaar, and more recently and in quick succession, translations by Jhumpa Lahiri: Ties in 2017, Trick in 2018, and now Trust in 2021. Each novel is fairly short, almost a novella really, that can, and perhaps should, be read in one sitting.
Nov 8, 2021 · April 30, 2021. Jhumpa Lahiri ’s decision to translate Starnone is a tribute to the author she calls “the finest Italian living writer; I really feel there’s no one writing fiction as fine ...
Domenico Starnone was born in Naples and lives in Rome. With The House on Via Gemito longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books. Set against the vivid backdrop of 1960s Naples, The House on Via Gemito is the story ...
Lifelong repercussions of an obsessive, unrequited love mingle with lyrical ruminations on death, language, and literature in Strega Prize–winning Domenico Starnone’s slim, flawless gem, The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan. In thirty-two brisk, retrospective vignettes, Mimi (short for Domenico), the septuagenarian narrator, reflects on the scope of the “thick tangle of ...
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May 27, 2023 · Federì, the central figure in Domenico Starnone’s searching and sorrowful work of autofiction, “The House on Via Gemito,” feels bedeviled by pram, day job and money worries. He’s a ...
