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Alta L. Price

Portrait of translator Alta L. Price

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Contributor

Alta L. Price

United States

Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize, she translates from Italian and German into English. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, 3 Quarks Daily, Specimen, and elsewhere. Her latest publications include books by Martin Mosebach, Dana Grigorcea, Anna Goldenberg, Alexander Kluge, and Aldo Novarese.

Articles by Alta L. Price

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The City and the Writer: In Zürich with Dana Grigorcea

By Nathalie Handal

In Switzerland people tend to be reticent, but reticence is—from both literary and theoretical perspectives—the best starting point for sudden passion.

Translated from German by Alta L. Price

“A Scream That Can No Longer Be Held In”: Translating Rahma Nur’s “Linguistic Threads”

By Candice Whitney, Alta L. Price & Barbara Ofosu-Somuah

Linguistic threads. IV lines and blood cells. Oppressive silencing. There is a viscerality that emerges when sitting with Rahma Nur’s poem “Fili Linguistici.” In describing her experience as…

Linguistic Threads, translated by Alta L. Price

Afro-Italian poet Rahma Nur describes her experience as a member of a diaspora living in Italy, noting how language marks the body and how it shapes one’s sense of loss.As you make headwaybetween…

Translated from Italian by Alta L. Price

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The City and the Writer: In Naples with Angelo Cannavacciuolo

By Nathalie Handal

Naples is the city of a hundred cities, of a hundred satellites all orbiting the unique, massive planet that is memory.

Translated by Alta L. Price

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Women Translating the Classics: An Interview with Emily Wilson, Sholeh Wolpé, and Arshia Sattar

By Alta L. Price

Translator and cofounder of the Women in Translation tumblr Alta L. Price spoke with three women translators of classical literature—Emily Wilson (Homer’s The Odyssey), Sholeh Wolpé…

There Is No Map: The New Italian(s)

By Alta L. Price

Who is Italian, what is the Italian language, and who deserves to write in it?