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"Only silence is shame" - Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Francesco Durante is a journalist and is the author of a major two-volume history and anthology of Italian American literature that will be published next year by Mondadori under the (still tentative) title Italoamericana: Literature and History of the Italians in the United States. He has translated John Fante and is editing a volume of Fante's selected works for Mondadori. He has also translated works of Raymond Carver, Bret Easton Ellis, W. Somerset Maugham, and has edited editions of the works of Compton Mackenzie, Norman douglas, and other authors. He has published essays of literary history and criticism, especially on Italian Mannerist and Baroque poetry and on 20th century American literature. For the publisher Avagliano he directs the collection "Transatlantica", dedicated to literary relations between Italy and the United States. The first volume is a translation of Jo Pagano's Golden Wedding. He also edits a quarterly dedicated to the same theme, also called Transatlantica. Born on the island of Capri, he lives in Milano. |