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Paola Capriolo (born 1 January 1962[1]) is an Italian novelist and translator.[2]
The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin,[2] she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a degree in philosophy in 1996. In 1988, she published her first book La grande Eulalia, a collection of short stories[3] which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize.[1]
Her work explores a reality outside of day-to-day life. Myth plays an important role in her writing.[4] She often is inspired by music, including references to music and making use of musical metaphors.[3]
Capriolo is also a reviewer for Corriere della Sera and a translator of German fiction.[1] Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese.[3]
Selected works
Novels/short stories
- Il nocchiero (1989), received the Rapallo Carige Prize in 1990[5] and was a finalist for the Premio Campiello in 1991[1]
- Il doppio regno (1991) was a finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1992[6]
- Vissi d’amore (1992)
- La spettatrice (1995)
- Un uomo di carattere (1996)
- Barbara (1998)
- Una di loro (2001)
- Qualcosa nella notte. Storia di Gilgamesh, signore di Uruk, e dell'uomo selvatico cresciuto tra le gazzelle (2003)
- ll pianista muto (2009)[3]
- Caino (2012)
- Mi ricordo (2015)
Children's literature
- La ragazza dalla stella d'oro (1991)
- L’amico invisibile (2006)
- Maria Callas (2007)
- Indira Gandhi (2009)
- La macchina dei sogni (2009)[3]
Translations from German
- La morte a Venice Thomas Mann (1991)
- I dolori del giovane Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1993)
- Le affinità elettive Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1995)
- Doppio sogno Arthur Schnitzler (2002)
- Pietre colorate Adalbert Stifter (2005)
- Metamorfosi Franz Kafka (2011)[3]
References
- Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa. Paolo, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. pp. 377–78. ISBN 1135455295.
- "Un altro mondo: interview with Paola Capriolo, Milan, November 1996". University of Salford. November 1996.
- "Paola Capriolo". The Institute of Modern Languages Research. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-25.
- Wilson, Rita (2007). Billiani, Francesca; Sulis, Gigliola (eds.). The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions. pp. 210–21. ISBN 0838641261.
- "Premio Rapallo Carige". Book Awards. LibraryThing.
- Healey, Robin (1998). Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-1997. p. 382. ISBN 0802008003.
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[de] Paola Capriolo
Paola Capriolo (* 1. Januar 1962 in Mailand, Italien) ist eine italienische Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin.- [en] Paola Capriolo
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