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Ann Goldstein

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Ann Goldstein

Ann Goldstein has translated works by, among others, authors Roberto Calasso, Alessandro Baricco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Aldo Buzzi. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award.

Articles by Ann Goldstein

The Truth According to Parviz Mansoor Samadi

By Amara Lakhous

I’ll tell you about Mario the Neapolitan some other time. Now you want to know everything about Amedeo—that is, start dinner with dessert? As you wish. The customer is king. I still remember the…

Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

from Night Bus

By Giampiero Rigosi

Thursday, 1 April 1993, 7:30 p.m.- Friday, 2 April 1993, 2:30 a.m.Hearts do not grieve and can suffer Hour by hour, even for an entire life, Without any of us ever knowing, With too much certainty, what…

Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Pigs

By Antonio Moresco

You have to be away from Italy to see Italy. Or maybe just slightly displaced within its borders—on one of the islands, for example. I was in Favignana a few years ago, and late one afternoon, on an old…

Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

Troublesome Love

By Elena Ferrante

Once he was certain that a man in the crowd had touched her. In front of everyone he hit her.

Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

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