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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.
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 ...
Sep 1, 2019 · TO BE BORN MALE IS AN INCURABLE DISEASE. Italian Strega prize winning writer Edoardo Albinati deeply explores male identity in his book The Catholic School.
Aug 19, 2019 · Book review: Edoardo Albinati’s novel moves between fiction and philosophy to explore violence
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.
For all that the priests idealised women, Albinati writes, the only female presence on campus was the Virgin Mary. ‘Chastity is a very particular variation on sexual brutality,’ he adds, leaving us to decide who were the victims here – the clergy, the pupils in their charge, or the girls they occasionally encountered.
Aug 6, 2019 · A horrific crime committed in Italy in 1975 is the inspiration for Edoardo Albinati’s “The Catholic School,” epic in length but narrow in tone.
