Ilide Carmignani guest at the Vespucci-Colombo Library

The afternoons of the “Vespucci-Colombo” Library continue.

On Wednesday, April 3rd at 6.30 pm, in the Aula Magna of the Vespucci-Colombo Institute, via Chiarini, 1, a special event is scheduled, because we will talk about translation and related topics. Ilide Carmignani, one of the most important translators in Italy, will be a guest and will dialogue with Manuela Magnoni. The event is organized in collaboration with Erasmo Libri.

Ilide Carmignani has been translating from Spanish for the major publishing houses for thirty-five years. Among the authors she has translated are: Abreu, Neruda, Bolaño, Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez, Sepúlveda, Soriano, Paz, Fuentes, Halfon, Grandes, Monterroso, Andruetto, Onetti, Cernuda Pérez-Reverte.

She has taught courses and seminars on literary translation at Italian and foreign universities. For seven years she was a workshop leader at the Summer School of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia.

In 2000 she won the Literary Translation Award from the Cervantes Institute, in 2013 the National Translation Award from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in 2018 the “Bodini” Award for her new translation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Mondadori), in 2020 the “Quercia del Myr” translation award, in 2021 the “Reading – Corriere della Sera” translation award, and in 2022 the “Mediterranean Culture” Award.

Since 2000 she has curated the cycle of meetings on literary translation for the Turin International Book Fair (the Invisible Author). Since 2003 she has organized the “Days of Literary Translation.”

She is an honorary member of AITI. She is part of the scientific committee of Babel, a festival of literature and translation (Switzerland) and a jury member of various translation awards, as well as the Strega Poetry Prize.

She collaborates with “TuttoLibri – La Stampa,” “Il Post,” and other publications. She has published “The Invisible Authors. Meetings on Literary Translation” (Besa 2008) and “Story of Luis Sepúlveda and his cat Zorba” (Salani 2021).

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