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Estelle Gilson


TRANSLATES: Italian

Estelle Gilson is a New York writer and translator, whose fiction, articles and profiles have appeared in many publications. Her translation from Italian of The Stories and Recollection of Umberto Saba received two awards in manuscript as well as the MLA's 1994 Scaglione award as the best literary translation published in the previous two years. She has also translated, from the Hebrew, To Be Recorded by Gabriel Preil and, from the French, The Jew by Stendhal.  She has been the recipient of grants from the NEA and NYSCA .


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Translations

The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba. Sheep Meadow, 1998.

Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, Massimo Bontempelli. McPherson & Co., 2000

October 16,1943 Eight Jews, Giacomo Debenedetti   Notre Dame University Press  2001

The Chess Set in the Mirror, Massimo Bontempelli, Paul Dry Books  2007.

The Faithful Lover,  Massimo Bontempelli,  Host Publications 2007





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