Jumping in the puddles at Vespucci-Colombo

Will be guestIlide Carmignani, one of the most important translators in Italy, who will dialogue withManuela Magnoni. The event is realized in collaboration with ErasmoLibri and Libreria Mondadori. It will be an opportunity to talk about“Splashing in the puddles”, by the sameIlide CarmignaniandElena Battista,released by Rizzoli.

The volume examines some untranslatable words that come from all over the world, such assamar, kilig, ailyak, curglaff, to indicate those simple, daily joys that in Italian have no name but that often bring more happiness than great achievements. Together they tell of “the pleasure of small things,”merak in Serbian, and offer us a fuller and more meaningful life. The sense of lightness at the end of a day’s work, the effervescence felt when talking to someone we like, the taste of trying something good straight from the stove, the energy of a dive into cool water… It is a fascinating journeyin the languages of the world, a small catalog – to be enriched as desired – of untranslatable words and (almost) inexpressible happiness.

Ilide Carmiganihas been translating from Spanish for the major publishing houses for thirty-five years. Among the authors she has translated: Abreu, Neruda, Bolaño, Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez, Sepúlveda, Soriano, Paz, Fuentes, Halfon, Grandes, Monterroso, Andruetto, Onetti, Cernuda Pérez-Reverte. She has held courses and seminars on literary translation at Italian and foreign universities. For seven years she was a workshop leader at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School at the University of East Anglia. In 2000 she won the Literary Translation Prize of the Cervantes Institute, in 2013 the National Translation Prize of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in 2018 the “Bodini” Prize for her new translation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” in 2020 the “Quercia del Myr” Translation Prize, in 2021 the “Reading – Corriere della Sera” Translation Prize, and in 2022 the “Cultura del Mediterraneo” Prize. Since 2000, she has curated the cycle of encounters on literary translation for the Turin International Book Fair (l’AutoreInvisibile). 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 literature and translation festival (Switzerland), and the jury of various translation awards, as well as the Strega Poesia 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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