Claudia Durastanti (born 8 June 1984, Brooklyn) is an Italian writer and translator.
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Born | (1984-06-08) 8 June 1984 (age 38) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist, translator, journalist |
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Years active | 2010–present |
She was shortlisted for the 2019 Strega Prize and Viareggio Prize with La Straniera (La nave di Teseo, 2019). The book is translated into twenty-one languages and is being adapted into a TV show.[1]
She graduated in Cultural Anthropology from the Sapienza University of Rome. Her work appeared in Granta, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Serving Library.
She is a board member of the Turin International Book Fair and co-founded the Italian Festival of Literature in London.[2]
She translated works by Joshua Cohen and Donna Haraway, as well as Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.[2]
She writes a music column for Internazionale and serves as a curator for the feminist imprint La Tartaruga, founded by Laura Lepetit in 1975.
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