Antonio Tabucchi

'The health service fixes people, the arts are about healing them'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Dec 2015

Marian Cinnamond was taught to read by a great uncle who'd fought in the Boer War. Now, thanks to the brilliant Reading Rooms project in Belfast, she's sharing her love of books with older people with dementia and a dads and lads group ... Share Go To ... She recalls. "I came here in October 1974 to work for six months as a volunteer with International Voluntary Service ... "One of my favourite books is Pereira Maintains, by Antonio Tabucchi....

University of North Dakota – Campus Successes December (North Dakota University System)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Dec 2015

(Source. North Dakota University System). UND Receives Nearly $750,000 Grant to Explore Recovering Rare Earth Elements ... UND professor's translation released in NYC. The release of University of North Dakota English Professor Elizabeth Harris' translation of Antonio Tabucchi's bestselling novel, Tristano Dies, from Italian, was celebrated recently in New York City ... Tabucchi is considered the most important writers of postwar Italy ... (noodl....

Fiction in Translation

Edit New York Times 11 Dec 2015

New books by Marianne Fritz, Hasan Ali Toptas, Ronit Matalon, Antonio Tabucchi and Yasmina Khadra ... ....

Stockholm - Teatro Gioco Vita stages “Donna di Porto Pim” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2015

The Stockholm Marionette Theatre will host two performances this evening (at 18.00 and 20.30) by the 'Teatro Gioco Vita' of Piacenza, who will stage Antonio Tabucchi's 'Donna di Porto Pim'....

COVER STORY: Review of Discontent and Its Civilizations

Edit Dawn 12 Apr 2015

Essays such as ‘Pereira Transforms’, which appeared as the introduction to a recent translation of Antonio Tabucchi’s Sostiene Pereira, point to Hamid’s quite specific interest in exploring how “testimonial form[s]” can “seduce” his listeners into an “interpretative space” where they are responsible — as in the trial-like Moth Smoke and the ......

Reviews of fiction by John Birmingham, Antonio Tabucchi, Sandip Roy and Fiona McIntosh,

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 10 Apr 2015

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Discontent and Its Civilizations – Pakistan’s place in the world

Edit The Guardian 04 Jan 2015

In a collection of essays, Mohsin Hamid looks at Pakistan’s role as villain within the global news industry. Mohsin Hamid. ‘poster child for a progressive postcoloniality’. Photograph. Sarah Lee for the Guardian. Sukhdev Sandhu. Sunday 4 January 2015 08.00 GMT. In 2010, Mohsin Hamid was asked by Granta to contribute to a piece entitled “How to write about Pakistan” ... Writing about Antonio Tabucchi’s Pereira Maintains, he claims ... Topics ... ....

Becoming Mr Italy

Edit The Irish Times 09 Aug 2014

... Italian, is now, among other things, an internationally respected translator of works such as Roberto Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as of major Italian writers Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino and Antonio Tabucchi and, as he enjoys pointing out, Machiavelli’s authoritative 16th century treatise of political theory, The Prince....

The Novel Cure: Literary prescription for over-eating

Edit The Independent 06 Jun 2014

Ailment. Over-eating. Cure. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi. If you know that you ingest more foodstuffs than strictly necessary for optimal health, and indeed have developed some extra all-round padding, the answer is not to go on a diet. You'll only make yourself miserable when it fails ... It's 1938 and, in the shadow of Fascist Spain, nobody dares to print the real news ... Behind it lurks the alarming truth ... thenovelcure.com ... ....

Brought to Book: Andrej Longo on his literary life

Edit The Irish Times 14 Apr 2014

Andrej Longo is the author of Ten (Harvill Secker, translated by Howard Curtis), a collection of short stories loosely based on the Ten Commandments and told at breakneck pace in the homes, backstreets and clubs of his native Naples ... What was the first book to make an impression on you?. When I was 13 I stumbled upon Kafka’s The Trial ... Macbeth ... Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi, the book which persuaded me to write my first book ... ....

2014 in books: an alternative calendar

Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2014

Scuffles over Marlowe, orgy at the Folio prize and Alasdair Gray skydiving – a look at the coming year in a parallel literary universe. Up, up and away … Alasdair Gray in midair. Photograph. Murdo Macleod. January ... February ... March ... April ... However, Wayne Rooney misunderstands and demands a video reel of goals by new Italian hotshot Antonio Tabucchi, while a baffled Steven Gerrard assumes Stefan Zweig must be the ref for the Costa Rica game ... ....

UND creative writing professor wins second translation award of 2013 (University of North Dakota)

Edit noodls 05 Dec 2013

(Source. University of North Dakota) UND creative writing professor wins second literary translation award of 2013 ... The translation was published by Autumn Hill Books in 2012. In August, UND announced that Harris also had been awarded the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award of $3,000 (from the PEN American Center) for her translation of Tristano Dies by Italian author Antonio Tabucchi (forthcoming with Archipelago Books)....