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Litquake's 2021 Festival runs from 10/7-10/23. Full schedule at litquake.org!

Recorded as a part of festival series, Words Around the World
Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation

Co-presented by Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco

Over the past 50 years, contemporary Italian authors familiar to American readers were largely limited to Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and a handful of others. But thanks in part to the popularity of author Elena Ferrante—the so-called “Ferrante Effect”—the work of a new generation of Italian writers, especially women writers, is arriving in the United States. To support this growing interest, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco has commissioned and published LITaly, a brand-new anthology of nine Italian writers, all translated into English for the first time. Join us for this hour of readings and discussion, with LITaly editor Marco Cassini, translator Olivia Sears, and LITaly contributors Ilaria Gaspari and Matteo Trevisani . This event is an adjunct to the 21st Annual Week of the Italian Language, which runs October 18-23, 2021.