Paola Capriolo

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

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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

Children's literature

Translations from German

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa. Paolo, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. pp. 377–78. ISBN   1135455295.
  2. 1 2 "Un altro mondo: interview with Paola Capriolo, Milan, November 1996". University of Salford. November 1996.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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.