Events (followed by Announcements and lists of Books Received)
https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/elsa-morante-50-years-after-la-storia
Panel Discussion
Elsa Morante, 50 Years after La Storia
On Translating Morante and Other Italian Women Writers
Speakers:
Franco Baldasso (Bard College, editor of Annali d’Italianistica)
Stefania Porcelli (Hunter College, editor of Annali d’Italianistica)
Ann Goldstein (translator NYRB)
Jenny McPhee (NYU, translator NYRB)
Italian author Elsa Morante is having today a deserved though much-deferred recognition as one of the truly outstanding writers of the 20th century writers, well beyond Italy. Morante has been a source of inspiration and a constant challenge for generations of women writers since – one has to think of Elena Ferrante, who fashioned her nickname as an homage to her favorite author. Today, prestigious new translations into English captivated a new readership able to appreciate her legacy, beginning with the 50th anniversary of her most controversial and beloved novel, La Storia (History: A Novel), which the new issue of the prestigious journal Annali d’Italianistica dedicated to Morante will celebrate.
