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Aug 13, 2020 · This interview, conducted over email—questions in English, responses in Italian (translated by poet, playwright, and co-translator of the English stage adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s best-selling true crime book Gomorrah, Dave Johnson)—aims not to uncover the biography of the author Edoardo Albinati, but rather to dive deeper still into ...
Life and career. Born in Rome, after Albinati started his career as a translator, a script adaptor and editor of the magazine Nuovi Argomenti. He made his debut as a writer in 1988, with a collection of short stories titled Arabeschi della vita morale.
Sep 1, 2019 · The writer Edoardo Albinati was born in Rome in 1956 where he still lives and teaches literature at the city’s Rebibbia prison. Albinati won Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega. His work The Catholic School has been translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar and is published in England by Picador.
Aug 19, 2019 · This much-lauded and hefty novel, originally published in Italy in 2016, appears now for the first time in English. The impetus of Albinati’s novel is to explain; however, he doesn’t do...
Aug 19, 2019 · Albinati’s novel is about a number of things—fascism, the petite bourgeois, Rome in the 1970s, growing up in a private all-boys school—and it revolves around the true story of an abduction and gruesome attack of two working class young women by men who attended the same school as Albinati.
Jan 24, 2017 · Italian author and screenwriter Edoardo Albinati is to be the pivotal guest for the Locarno Festival’s 5th springtime event L’immagine e la parola, scheduled for 10 to 12 March 2017. Albinati’s writing is an insightful commentary on contemporary Italy, but has also been responsive to the iconography of film, and so the Festival approached ...
Aug 6, 2019 · The novelist Edoardo Albinati attended the same school as the killers. In “The Catholic School” — a 1,200-page slab of lament, accusation, exorcism — he anatomizes the world that produced ...
