Claudio Morandini is an Italian writer.
Life
He was born in
Aosta
Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest ...
in 1960. He is a highschool teacher.
In 2007, his short story ''Le dita fredde'' was published in the
US by
Black Arrow Press as part of the ''Santi – Lives of Modern Saints'' anthology.
He won the
Premio Procida for his novel ''Neve, cane, piede'', which has been translated into many languages, including an English edition by
Peirene Press
Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in London. Established by novelist and publisher Meike Ziervogel, Peirene is primarily focused on bringing out high-quality English translations of contemporary European short novels. Peirene ...
(2019). The novel's translator J Ockenden won the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize.
Peirene Stevns Translation Prize postponed after publisher objects
/ref> In 2022 "Snow, dog, foot" is runner-up in the John Florio Prize
The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors,
with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize wa ...
.
Works
* ''Nora e le ombre'' (Palomar 2006)
* ''Le larve'' (Pendragon, 2008)
* ''Rapsodia su un solo tema. Colloqui con Rafail Dvoinikov'' (Manni, 2010)
* ''Il sangue del tiranno'' (Agenzia X, 2011)
* ''A gran giornate'' (La Linea, 2012)
* ''Neve, cane, piede'' (Exòrma, 2015; Bompiani, 2021)
* ''Le pietre'' (Exòrma, 2017)
* ''Le maschere di Pocacosa'' (Salani, 2018)
* ''Gli oscillanti'' (Bompiani, 2019)
* ''Catalogo dei silenzi e delle attese'' (Bompiani, 2022)
* ''La conca buia'' (Nottetempo, 2023)
English translations
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References
Living people
21st-century Italian writers
21st-century Italian novelists
Italian male novelists
1960 births
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