Anne Milano Appel
Anne Milano Appel is an American translator of Italian literature and language teacher. She obtained a doctorate in Romance languages from Rutgers University in 1970. She has translated, among others, works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Giovanni Arpino and Goliarda Sapienza. She was awarded the John Florio Prize in 2012 for her translation of Arpino's Scent of a Woman. She is also working on English translations of Giordano's Like Family, Syrian Dust by Francesca Borri and Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella.
List of translations
- Aline Cendon, Loris Dilena, Venice. Its Wood, Andrea Montagnani, ed. Nonfiction. Ponzano: Edizioni Grafiche Vianello srl/Vianello Libri, 2005.
- Andrea Canobbio, Three Light-Years.. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014. British edition forthcoming from MacLehose Press, December 2015.
- Andrea Moro, The Secret of Pietramala.. La Nave di Teseo, 2023.
- Claudio Magris, Blindly. Yale University Press, 2012.
- Claudio Magris, Non luogo a procedere. In progress for Yale University Press.
- Claudio Magris. Blindly.. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada, 2010.
- Davide Lucchetta, A Heart of Stars and Stripes. A Photographic Journey through the United States.. Nonfiction. Ponzano: Edizioni Grafiche Vianello srl/Vianello Libri, 2005.
- Elena Kostioukovitch, Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. Non-fiction with Forewords by Umberto Eco and Carol Field.. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009.
- Fiamma Nirenstein, Terror: The New Anti-Semitism and the War Against the West.. Nonfiction. Smith and Kraus Publishers, Hanover, NH, 2005.
- Francesca Borri, Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War. Penguin UK, 2011.
- Giulio Leoni, The Mosaic Crimes.. Fiction. Harcourt, 2007. And as The Third Heaven Conspiracy, Harvill Secker, 2007. Reprint edition published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
- Giuseppe Catozzella, Don't Tell Me You're Afraid Forthcoming, August 2016 for The Penguin Press.
- Goliarda Sapienza, The Art of Joy.. Penguin UK and Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2013.
- Marco Franzoso, The Indigo Child. Amazon e-book, 2015.
- Maurizio De Giovanni, I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi . Hersilia Press, 2012.
- Orio Frassetto, Andrea Belieni, Treviso: The Places Where Art Lives On, Andrea Montagnani, ed.,. Nonfiction. Ponzano: Edizioni Grafiche Vianello srl/Vianello Libri, 2005.
- Paola Calvetti, PO Box Love, a novel.. St. Martin’s Press, 2012.
- Paolo Giordano, Like Family.. Forthcoming, December 2015. Pamela Dorman Books/Viking/Penguin.
- Paolo Giordano, The Human Body.. Pamela Dorman Books/Viking/Penguin, 2014.
- Primo Levi, Stories and Essays. In The Complete Works of Primo Levi, Ann Goldstein, project editor, Robert Weil, executive editor. W. W. Norton, 2015.
- Roberto Saviano, My Italians.. In progress for Penguin UK.
- Sara Ventura, Michele Zanetti, Caorle: the Light All Around, Andrea Montagnani, ed. Nonfiction. Ponzano: Edizioni Grafiche Vianello srl/Vianello Libri, 2005.
- Stefano Bortolussi, Head Above Water, a novel. San Francisco: City Lights Press, 2003.
- Vito Bruschini, The Prince.. Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pending or unpublished
- Angelo Cannavacciuolo, excerpt from When Things Happen, a novel..
- Annalisa Monfreda, feature article about Arberia entitled “The Freedom Song of the Arberesh”, 2006.
- Annalisa Monfreda, feature article about Burkina Faso entitled “Story of the Man Who Stopped the Desert”, 2007.
- Annalisa Monfreda, feature article about Istanbul entitled “Istanbul: The Double Life of the Mistress of the Bosphorus”, 2007.
- Annalisa Monfreda, feature article about Kurdistan entitled “Kurdistan: When Peshmerga go into real estate”, 2007.
- Annalisa Monfreda, feature article about the Iranian cinema industry entitled “Takes on Freedom”, 2007.
- Carlo Fornari. Frederick II and Saint Francis.
- Carlo Lucarelli, “The Dark Side of the Heart”, a short story. Original publication in the collection Vorrei essere il pilota di uno Zero and in Il lato sinistro del cuore. Tutti i racconti. Translated for promotional purposes for Einaudi.
- Caterina Bonvicini, excerpt from The Equilibrium of Sharks, a novel..
- Enrico Cernigoi, Political Choices and National Identity: At the Eastern Borders of Italy from the Resistance to the Cold War, dissertation for the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
- Enzo Fontana, excerpts from Diary of a Boy Who Was Cloned, a novel. Original publication: Milan: Àncora, 2002. Translated for promotional purposes for Àncora.
- Enzo Fontana, excerpts from The New Fire, a novel..
- Enzo Fontana, Tra la perduta gente, a novel. Original publication: Milan: Mondadori, 1996.
- Fabiano Alborghetti. Poems from the volume The Opposite Shore. For a reading at the Other Words: 6th Annual International Poetry Festival in San Francisco, October 12, 2008, representing Switzerland.
- Gaspare Bitetto, Logos, a volume of poetry. January 2005.
- Isabella Messina, The Monster, a volume of short stories.
- John Kleiner, “Il fallimento dei maestri: Dante, Virgilio e le ironie dell’istruzione”. Original publication in Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife,.
- Lorenzo Costa, The Greater Evil, a novella.
- Marina Argenziano, Antonietta Pirandello née Portolano. Fiction..
- Mario Desiati, “The Doctor Who Craved Peace and Quiet”, a short story..
- Marisa Madieri, excerpt from Aqua-green.. Publishing rights are on submission via agent Matthew McLean at The Wylie Agency.
- Paolo Gallina, excerpt from One Hundred Cows, an unpublished novel set in Southern Sudan.
- Rosella Postorino, excerpt from The Summer We Fell From Grace, a novel..
- Silvano Agosti, excerpts from the novel Il semplice oblio.
- Valentina Reginelli, “Like the Sea”, a short story. From the volume Gli Intemperanti, Giulia Belloni, ed..