Thursday 29 June 2023 at 12.00 – Trinity College Dublin – Long Room Hub
As part of the International Conference “Italo Calvino and World Culture: A Hundred-Year Legacy”, we are pleased to invite you to a conversation with Ann Goldstein, world renowned translator of Italian literature. Authors she has translated include Alessandro Baricco, Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini and, of course, Italo Calvino.
Goldstein recently translated The Written World and the Unwritten World into English, after finishing work on her new version of The Baron in the Trees.
Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. She is also the editor of the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from the Italian Foreign Ministry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2023, Ann Goldstein’s translation of Italo Calvino’s essays titled The Written World and the Unwritten World was published by Penguin.
At this event, Goldstein will join Dr. James Hadley (Trinity College Dublin) for a conversation about translating Italo Calvino. The event will be in hybrid mode, however, please note that it will not be possible to attend the event from remote. Participants can only attend on site.
Event in English.
Free admission upon registration here.
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