Richard Dixon (translator)

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Richard Dixon is an English translator of Italian literature. He translated the last works of Umberto Eco, including his novels The Prague Cemetery , shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, and Numero Zero , commended by the judges of the John Florio Prize, 2016. He has also translated works by Giacomo Leopardi, Roberto Calasso and Antonio Moresco.

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Life

Richard Dixon was born in Coventry, in 1956. He was educated at King Henry VIII School and Lanchester Polytechnic, where he graduated in Business Law. He practised as a barrister in London for ten years before moving to Italy in 1989, where he now lives. [1] [2] [3]

Selected translations

He has also translated contemporary Italian poets, [19] including Franco Buffoni [20] [21] and Eugenio De Signoribus [22] [23] [24] [25]

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