Authors 2008

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 from a Mexican father and chicana mother, the third of seven children and the only girl. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is considered one of the most important writers of chicana literature and a voice for Mexican immigrants in the United States. Asides from several stories and articles for newspapers and magazines, she is the author of the best seller The House on Mango Street, three books of poetry Bad Boys, My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman and the children’s book Hairs/Pelitos. She has been awarded numerous prizes both American and international and two honorary degrees (from the universities of Chicago and New York). Her books have been translated in more than 12 languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese, Turkish and most recently Greek, Thai and Serbo-Croatian.

Riccardo Duranti

Riccardo Duranti teaches English literature and translation in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Besides his intense activity as a literary translator (he has translated all the works of Raymond Carver into Italian), he writes poems and short stories. Among his recent work he has collaborated on the translation of Valerio Magrelli’s poems into English (Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper and Other Poems, edited by Anthony Molino, Chelsea Editions, New York, 2008).