Home > PEN World Voices > Venuti Lawrence Venuti Venuti is the prize-winning translator of, among other works, Massimo Carlotto’s novels The Goodbye Kiss and Death’s Dark Abyss. A translation theorist and historian, he is currently professor of English at Temple University. WORLD VOICES EVENTS Friday, April 28 at 6:00 Taking Crime Fiction Seriously Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2012 PEN American Center. All rights reserved.