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Helen Barolini
New York

TRANSLATES: Italian

Helen Barolini was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. During her marriage to the late Italian author and journalist Antonio Barolini, whose work she translated, she lived in Italy for a number of years. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant for creative writing, she has also been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell colony, the Bellagio Center at Lake Como, and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.  Barolini is the author of ten books among them  the collection "The Dream Book" which received an American Book Award. and many short stories and essays that have appeared in literary journals and many collections or anthologies.

In 2008 the Italian edition of Barolini's novel "Umbertina" was given a literary award in Italy,  the Premio Acerbi.

 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Umbertina, a novel, 1979; 1999; Italian edition, 2001; The Dream Book: an Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women, 1985; 2000; Love in the Middle Ages, a novel, 1986 Festa: Recipes & Recollections of Italian Holidays, 1988, 2002; Aldus and His Dream Book, 1991; Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity, 1999; Italian edition, 2004; More Italian Hours, and Other Stories, 2001; Rome Burning, poems, 2004; A Circular Journey, memoir essays, 2006;  Their Other Side: Six American Women & the Lure of Italy, 2006

in Italian, Passaggio in Italia, 2004

Unpublished: Visits, a novel;  Crossing the Alps, a novel

 








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