Andrea Canobbio (born Turin, 1962) is an

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writer and translator. A graduate of the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

, he made his literary debut in 1986. He has written several books, but is best known abroad for his novel ''Tre anni luce''. An English translation by Anne Milano Appel under the title ''Three Light-Years'' was widely praised upon publication. He has received a number of literary prizes, among them the Premio Mondello, the

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and the

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. As a literary translator, Canobbio has translated works by

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and

Jean Echenoz Jean Echenoz (; born 26 December 1947) is a French writer. Biography Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived s ...

from French to Italian.Boyd Tonkin
"Novelist Andrea Canobbio: Private angst, public terror"
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'', 25 January 2008.

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