Paola Capriolo

Paola Capriolo (born 1 January 1962 ^[1] ) is an Italian novelist and translator. ^[2]

The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin, ^[2] she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a degree in philosophy in 1996. In 1988, she published her first book La grande Eulalia, a collection of short stories ^[3] which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize. ^[1]

Her work explores a reality outside of day-to-day life. Myth plays an important role in her writing. ^[4] She often is inspired by music, including references to music and making use of musical metaphors. ^[3]

Capriolo is also a reviewer for Corriere della Sera and a translator of German fiction. ^[1] Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese. ^[3]

Selected works

Novels/short stories

• Il nocchiero (1989), received the Rapallo Carige Prize in 1990 ^[5] and was a finalist for the Premio Campiello in 1991 ^[1]
• Il doppio regno (1991) was a finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1992 ^[6]
• Vissi d’amore (1992)
• La spettatrice (1995)
• Un uomo di carattere (1996)
• Barbara (1998)
• Una di loro (2001)
• Qualcosa nella notte. Storia di Gilgamesh, signore di Uruk, e dell'uomo selvatico cresciuto tra le gazzelle (2003)
• ll pianista muto (2009) ^[3]
• Caino (2012)
• Mi ricordo (2015)

Children's literature

• La ragazza dalla stella d'oro (1991)
• L’amico invisibile (2006)
• Maria Callas (2007)
• Indira Gandhi (2009)
• La macchina dei sogni (2009) ^[3]

Translations from German

• La morte a Venice Thomas Mann (1991)
• I dolori del giovane Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1993)
• Le affinità elettive Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1995)
• Doppio sogno Arthur Schnitzler (2002)
• Pietre colorate Adalbert Stifter (2005)
• Metamorfosi Franz Kafka (2011) ^[3]

References

1. Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa. Paolo, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. pp. 377–78. ISBN   1135455295.
2. "Un altro mondo: interview with Paola Capriolo, Milan, November 1996". University of Salford. November 1996.
3. "Paola Capriolo". The Institute of Modern Languages Research. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-25.
4. Wilson, Rita (2007). Billiani, Francesca; Sulis, Gigliola (eds.). The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions. pp. 210–21. ISBN   0838641261.
5. "Premio Rapallo Carige". Book Awards. LibraryThing.
6. Healey, Robin (1998). Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-1997. p. 382. ISBN   0802008003.