FRSL
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(17 September 1926 – 14 September 2018) was a writer, translator and film critic.
Biography
She was born in Ontaneda, Spain, and educated at
Godolphin School
Godolphin School is an independent boarding and day school for girls in Salisbury, England, which was founded in 1726 and opened in 1784. The school educates girls between the ages of three and eighteen.
History
Godolphin was founded by Eliz ...
Penguin Books
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Booker Prize
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jury in 1986.
In 1953, her first book, and only novel, ''The Eye of Heaven'', was published. Other books include ''The Heirs of Tom Brown: The English School Story'' and ''Charlie Chaplin: Early Comedies''. She has also translated more than 100 books from Italian, Spanish and French. Her most notable translations are Silvano Ceccherini's ''The Transfer'', for which, in 1967, she won the John Florio Prize, and Giorgio Bassani's ''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis''. According to Robin Healey's ''Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation'', Quigly was one of the top 10 translators of Italian literature of the last 70 years, alongside
Archibald Colquhoun Archibald Colquhoun may refer to:
* Archibald Colquhoun (politician), Scottish politician and lawyer
* Archibald Colquhoun (translator)
Archibald Colquhoun (1912–1964) was a leading translator of modern Italian literature into English. He studied ...
Angus Davidson
Angus Gordon Davidson (born 2 October 1948) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Forfar
Scottish footballers
Association football midfielders
Grims ...
Stuart Hood
Stuart Clink Hood (17 December 1915 – 31 January 2011) was a Scottish novelist, translator and a former British television producer and Controller of BBC Television.
Life
Hood was born in Edzell, Angus, Scotland. His father was an infant ...
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Eric Mosbacher
Eric Mosbacher (22 December 1903 – 2 July 1998) was an English journalist and translator from Italian, French, German and Spanish. He translated work by Ignazio Silone and Sigmund Freud.'Eric Mosbacher', '' The Times'', 10 July 1998, p.25
Li ...
* Silvano Ceccherini: The Transfer (John Florio Prize)
* Giorgio Bassani: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
* Giorgio Bassani: A Prospect of Ferrara
* Giorgio Bassani: The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles
* Alba de Céspedes: Between Then and Now
* Alba de Céspedes: La Bambolona
* Alba de Céspedes: The Secret
* Antonio Cossu: The Sardinian Hostage
* Attilio Veraldi: The Payoff
* Carlo Cassola: Fausto and Anna
* Carlo Monterosso: The Salt of the Earth
* Carlo Picchio: Freedom Fighter
* Elena Bono: The Widow of Pilate
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Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante (; 18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel ''La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time.
Life and ...
: Arturo's Island
* Ercole Patti: That Wonderful November
* Fabio Carpi: The Abandoned Places
* Fausta Cialente: The Levantines
* Fortunato Seminara: The Wind in the Olive Grove
* Giuliana Pandolfi Boldrini: The Etruscan Leopards
* Giuseppe Dessì: The House at San Silvano
* Goffredo Parise: Solitudes
* Livia Svevo: Memoir of Italo Svevo
* Lorenza Mazzetti: Rage
* Luigi Magnani: Beethoven's Nephew
* Luigi Preti: Through the Fascist Fire
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Michele Prisco
Michele Prisco (18 January 1920 – 19 November 2003) was an Italian journalist, critic, and novelist.
Prisco was born and educated in Torre Annunziata. His family provided the middle-class background central to many of his books. He studied l ...
: A Spiral of Mist
* Nino Palumbo: The Bribe
* Nino Palumbo: Tomorrow Will be Better
* Oliviero Honore Bianchi: Devil's Night
* Oriana Fallaci: Nothing, and So Be It
* Renato Ghiotto: The Slave
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Sergio Donati
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: The Paper Tomb
* Uberto Paolo Quintavalle: On the Make
* Georges Simenon: The Family Lie