“Un secolo fa, con una guerra mondiale e una grande epidemia alle spalle, il mondo ruggiva festoso, ignaro delle nubi che si addensavano all’orizzonte. Gli anni Venti arrivavano carichi di promesse e di minacce. Ecco che tornano, in un paesaggio stravolto e indecifrabile.”
An excerpt from the latest book by Paolo Di Paolo, Svegliarsi negli anni Venti, which will be discusssed with Enrico Terrinoni for an exclusive meeting organized by the IIC.
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Enrico Terrinoni is Professor of English Literature at the Università Per Stranieri di Perugia. He holds a Ph.D. from University College Dublin. He was Government of Ireland Scholar at UCD (2001-2003), Research Fellow at Indiana University (2008), Marsh’s Library Dublin (2013), and Visiting Research Fellow at the Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (2017). He has translated such authors as Francis Bacon, Brendan Behan, Muriel Spark, John Burnside, BS Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alasdair Gray, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Lee Masters, and James Joyce. His Italian translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses won the “City of Naples Award” for Italian language and Culture in 2012. His Italian translation of Finnegans Wake, done in collaboration with Fabio Pedone, won the Annibal Caro Prize in 2017, and he was awarded the” City of Florence / Von Rezzori Prize” for translation in 2019. He’s the author of several books and articles on Joyce, Irish literature, and translation theory.
Paolo Di Paolo is an Italian writer and journalist from Rome. He is the author of several essays, novels, plays and children’s books, including a version of the Divine Comedy for kids. His novel Mandami tanta vita was shortlisted for the Strega Prize in 2013. He currently writes for the Italian newspapers L’Espresso and Repubblica and coordinates the Lezioni di Storia Festival by Editori Laterza in Rome.