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Book Club: “Wandering Through the Ruins of the Crumbling Cities” – A Conversation with Nadia Terranova

For the series of literary encounters linked to the Book Club of our Institute, we are pleased to host the online conversation with the writer Nadia Terranova, author of the novel “Trema la notte” (Einaudi, 2022)

The event will be held online on the 11th of May at 18.30, moderated by Enrica Maria Ferrara and Stiliana Milkova, with the participation of Serena Todesco.

In Italian with English translation.

 

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 6.30pm

Find more about hte book HERE.

For bookings on the Zoom platform click HERE.

 

December 28, 1908: the most devastating earthquake ever occurred in Europe wipes out the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Two protagonists, a young woman and a child, tell the violence of which they are victims and the horror they witness. While their lives fall apart – and the world they know crumbles away, underneath their feet and all around them – a path of rebirth unfolds, perhaps already written in the stars or in the tarot cards that punctuate each chapter of this beautiful story.

 

Nadia Terranova was born in Messina in 1978. Her latest books are: Gli anni al contrario (2015; Bagutta Prize, Brancati Prize), Addio Fantasmi (2018; shortlisted for the Strega prize; translated by Ann Goldstein as Farewell, ghosts) Come una storia d’amore (2020), Non sono mai stata via. Vita in esilio di Maria Zambrano (2020), Trema la notte (2022). She has written many children’s books, including: Omero è stato qui (2019, illustrations by Vanna Vinci), Aladino (2020, illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti), Il Segreto (2021, illustrations by Mara Cerri). Terranova is also the author of the graphic novel Caravaggio e la ragazza (2021, with Lelio Bonaccorso) translated into several languages. She collaborates with Italian newspapers such as la Repubblica, Il Foglio, Linkiesta and Vanity Fair.

Enrica Maria Ferrara is a writer, translator, and scholar in Italian literature and film working at Trinity College Dublin. Her latest work as a translator includes the volume Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples (Viella, 2018), edited by D. Cecere et al., as well as texts by Cosentino, Perrella, Starnone, among others.

Recent scholarly publications include: Staged Narratives / Narrative Stages (co-edited with C. Ó Cuilleanáin, Franco Cesati, 2017); Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave, 2020), of which she is the editor; Reading Domenico Starnone, a special issue of Reading in Translation (co-edited with Stiliana Milkova, 2021).

Stiliana Milkova is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Oberlin College (USA). Her scholarly publications include several articles on Russian and Bulgarian literature, numerous scholarly essays on Elena Ferrante, and the monograph Elena Ferrante as World Literature. She is the co-editor of the special issue of MLN “Elena Ferrante in a Global Context” and she edits the online journal Reading in Translation. She has translated or co-translated from Italian works by Anita Raja, Adriana Cavarero, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco, Tiziano Scarpa, and Dario Voltolini, among others.

Serena Todesco is a literary translator and a scholar of Italian literature, working particularly on Southern women writers (Ferrante, Ortese, Murgia, Cutrufelli). She is the author of Tracce a margine (2017), a study on Sicilian women writers, and Campo a due (2021), an intergenerational dialogue on feminism and the South with Sicilian writer Maria Rosa Cutrufelli.

  • Organized by: IIC Dublino
  • In collaboration with: Trinity College Dublin