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WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Baudelaire’s Folly  by Roberto Calasso for Farrar Straus Giroux
• The Maiden Machine  by Brunella Antomarini for Edgewise
• Every Promise by  Andrea Bajani for Quercus                                                             

SOME RECENT TRANSLATIONS

 Novels

• Before We say Goodbye by Gabriella Ambrosio for Walker Books
• The French Father by Alain Elkann for Pushkin Press
• The Verdict  by Valeria Parrella for Bompiani
• Envy  by Alain Elkann for Pushkin Press (London)
• The Marchesa by Simonetta Agnello Hornby for Farrar Straus & Giroux (New York) and Penguin (London).
• It’s Getting Later All the Time  by Antonio Tabucchi for New Directions Publishing Corp (New York)
• SS Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy for New Directions (New York)
• Lands of Glass by Alessandro Baricco  for Hamish Hamilton, London
• The Force of the Past  by Sandro Veronesi  for Harper Collins, New York; Fourth Estate, London
• The Age of Flowers by Umberto Pasti for Pushkin Press, London and New York
• Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco  for Alfred Knopf, New York
• The Survivor  by Luca Goldoni   for Dean Film International
• Aloha  by Aldo Busi  for Bompiani
• Suicide, what else? by Aldo Busi  for Frassinelli
• Mother naked: the perfect writer’s manual by Aldo Busi  for Bompiani
• Cocks and Kangaroos (Not Many Kangaroos) by Aldo Busi  for Frassinelli
• The Money Must Stay in the Family by Alain Elkann  for Bompiani
• The Confidence Man (from English to Italian with Gianna Lonza) by Herman Melville for the series "I Classici Classici" (Frassinelli)
• Children’s Literature (Fantasy)
• Fairy Oak  a series of seven books for Bombus Srl
• Ossidea the first of a series of four works of fantasy for Bombus Srl and Salani Editore

 Non-fiction

• Sicily: the Journey  for Genivs  Loci Edizioni, Milan
• Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso for Alfred Knopf
• The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco for Rizzoli International and Maclehose Press
• Turning Back the Clock a collection of essays by Umberto Eco for Harvill Secker and Harcourt Brace *
• On Ugliness, edited by Umberto Eco for Rizzoli International and Harvill Secker
• A History of Beauty by Umberto Eco for Rizzoli International and Secker & Warburg (under different title: On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea).
• Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco  for Secker & Warburg, London, Harcourt Brace, New York)
• Experiences in Translation by Umberto Eco  for Toronto U.P.
• The Complete Works of William Fabricius Hildanus, a 17^th-century treatise on surgical method, for the Scientific Committee of the European Union.
• 5 Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco  for Harcourt Brace, New York; Secker & Warburg, London)
• De Biblioteca, by Umberto Eco - commissioned by way of an introduction to the book Candida Höfer, Libraries - (Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH )
• Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli  for Harcourt Brace, New York; Granta, London) **
• Silent Geometry: Three Approaches To Neoclassical Art by Anna Ottani Cavina  for Columbia UP
• Viaggio Italiano by Fulvio Roiter with texts by Enzo Biagi f or Rizzoli
• Sicily Remembered by Ferdinando Scianna with texts by Dacia Maraini for Rizzoli
• I Solisti Veneti by various authors  for Franco Maria Ricci
• Sala Baganza by various authors  for Franco Maria Ricci
• Palazzo Altieri by various authors  for Franco Maria Ricci
• Caserta by various authors  for Franco Maria Ricci
• San Marco - La Basilica Patriarcale in Venezia (Vol II) by various authors   for Fabbri Bompiani Sonzogno ETAS
• Venezia e la Biennale - percorsi del gusto – by various authors  for RCS Libri e Grandi Opere

 Poetry

• The Talcum Under Her Ballet Shoes – by the prize winning Italian poet Sebastiano Grasso (privately commissioned)

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 Awards, etc.

• The Sir John Florio Prize (2002): 2^nd prize for the translation of Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli.
• The Sir John Florio Prize (2008): 2^nd prize for the translation of Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco