Clarissa Botsford
@botsford_cla
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Literary Italian-English translator, Humanist Celebrant and musician based in Rome. Happiest in the middle voice.
Rome, Italy
Joined October 2020
My heart was broken a thousand times translating this novel. A brilliant exploration of consent: when and how can No be construed as Yes. Publication Day May 9 @HarperViaBooks @viola_ardone and so frustrated the first time my name is on a cover I can't seem to fit it in here!
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RT @andothertweets: The new round-up of @eurolitnet's #RivetingReviews features reviews of The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi (tr. @JR…
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And a fascinating conversation with you @JRichWords about the experience of translating it!
Thanks to Clarissa Botsford (@botsford_cla) for this review of Marosia Castaldi's Hunger of Women (@andothertweets) in the latest issue of Riveting Reviews from @eurolitnet (@GoldRosie):
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A positive smorgasbord of reviews, including my conversation with translator @JRichWords and review of extraordinary novel by Marisa Castaldi, The Hunger of Women @andothertweets Thanks as always @eurolitnet and especially Max Easterman
From Olga Tokarzcuk to Bernhard Schlink, we’re proud to present our latest #RivetingReviews of European literature in English translation, edited by Max Easterman (read his introductory essay here) and published by @eurolitnet Thank you everyone!
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RT @bookpage: Our best historical fiction books of 2024 will transport you to another time and place. @bloomsburypub @groveatlantic @double…
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RT @GlobalLitin: We just added Translators Aloud to our page of international literature podcasts. Are you following them?
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@ViragoBooks @fromtheitalian @StuartEvers @iiclondra Bestselling prize-winning novel translated by the brilliant Leah Janeczko @fromtheitalian
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@EnricaFerrara @ReadinginTrans @FaziEditore @DunneCatherine @nadiaterranova @CDurastanti The biggest congratulations @EnricaFerrara for your most-deserved win!
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RT @fromtheitalian: Michael’s rendering of the Inferno using Dante’s original rhyme scheme, “terza rima” (a remarkable accomplishment in it…
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RT @fromtheitalian: Italian Lit Month n.47, by Michael F. Moore! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors a…
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RT @fromtheitalian: Italian Lit Month n.49, by Michael Palma! Join us through post n. 50 to read about wonderful Italian books, authors an…
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RT @BrianRobMoore: After attending the Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Dublin, I have to say it's now the gold standard for me…
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RT @bonnerjeanne: Note to aspiring literary translators: make this interview with @JRichWords part of your education! This master translato…
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RT @fromtheitalian: Italian Lit Month n.46, by Jeanne Bonner, with Jamie Richards! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italia…
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Huge Congrats @Jennymcphee well deserved!
Announcing the winner of the 2024 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): LIES AND SORCERY by Elsa Morante, translated by @Jennymcphee, published by @NYRB_Imprints & @classicpenguins!
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RT @tachtco: How exciting was it to be hosting the awards when @JRichWords won the NTA in Prose! I went to my very first ALTA with Jamie an…
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Love this: “We translators are first transcribers—we rewrite the music for another instrument, our language—and then musicians, as we give voice to the instrument and new score.”
On Translating Camilleri: Notes from the Pure Linguistic Sphere of Translation, by Stephen Sartarelli. #ItalianLitMonth #ItalianLit
#Translation #TranslatedLit 🧵
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RT @fromtheitalian: Italian Lit Month n.44, by Stephen Sartarelli! Join us daily in October to read about wonderful Italian books, authors…
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RT @CeatlNews: Yet another beautiful cooperation with the Bologna Children's Book Fair and FIT: a video with 29 literary translators readi…
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RT @GlobalLitin: An Interview with Italian Authorpreneur, Filippo Iannarone, by Lori Hetherington. #ItalianLitMon…
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