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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have a cover! (Surprise, it's white!) Out in July with @andotherstories.bsky.social Translating any Michele Mari book is an honor, but this mysterious high-modernist masterpiece was something special: delighted & haunted me on every page. Hope you'll all join Walter Benjamin in the hunt for aura🪐

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Have been informed that my translation of In Farthest Seas has been awarded by part of the Italian government with the Premio alla Traduzione / Translation Prize for the year’s best translation into English (UK) 💙. @pushkinpress.com Some good WIT Month news!

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Michele Mari has won his third PEN Translates award in a row from @englishpen.bsky.social for All the Iron in the Eiffel Tower! Can’t wait for people to read this masterpiece in the form of high-modernist detective story: www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p... @andotherstories.bsky.social

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Michele Mari has won Italy's most important literary award, the Strega Prize! Thrilled that his novel I convitati di pietra, provisionally titled The Stone Guests, will be published in English in my translation – along with two other masterpieces of his for @andotherstories.bsky.social!

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What's summer without a little love & death? Critic Molly Fischer writes that she’s loving Lalla Romano’s IN FARTHEST SEAS in @newyorker.com! 💙🌊 @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

2025 for me was above all a year of Lalla Romano. Belatedly want to thank everyone on here who read this truly important writer so far! She still deserves more attention but we're that much closer 💙 More on '26 projects soon For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025! Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌 @pushkinpress.com

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thanks, Kim! Yes, she is fascinating, and was very daring for the time too. Maybe I've shared this one with you before, but here's Lalla with Innocenzo and their friend Gigi, like in the first part of the book.

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times! "It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Natalia Ginzburg called Lalla Romano's writing "beautiful, fecund, vivifying," and the reactions from writers today to In Farthest Seas have been just as exciting. Out now with @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social and coming out in two weeks in the UK & Ireland with @pushkinpress.com!

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Out today in the US! 🌊 Translating this masterpiece on love & death was one of the great emotional journeys of my life. Lalla Romano feels so relevant to how we think about writing today, it leaves me speechless—can't wait for readers to take this voyage: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783140...

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Now just two weeks away (and Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas will be out in the US in just a few days)! I'm told this event with Jhumpa might be on the crowded side, so rsvp and come early if you can: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-farthes... @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A little Sunday reading from Lalla Romano. The Sick Child, published in @mcsweeneys.net 😨

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for highlighting Walter Siti's "My Poor Parents", pub'ed in @grantamag.bsky.social, in this week's Memoir Monday roundup! 🫶 memoirland.substack.com/p/this-weeks...

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The judges' incredibly generous citation, and the full list of winners here: pen.org/announcing-t... @penamerica.bsky.social

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A sea of Lallas 🌊🌊 Working on this was not like translating a book, but like translating a whole human heart. In Farthest Seas is out Aug 26 in the US & Sept 11 in the UK. Fans include Jhumpa Lahiri, Ayşegül Savaş, Catherine Lacey and Natalia Ginzburg! @pushkinpress.com @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thank you, Declan! Very kind of you to say. As of this week it's also on the shortlist.

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Verdigris by Michele Mari has been longlisted for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize 🐌 The full list of nominees here: pen.org/announcing-t...

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here it is. This one is going to be the big test to see if people ultimately have good taste or not: If Lalla's genius doesn't get appreciated for what it is, I might just drop this whole literary translation thing and set out to sea for good. 🌊🌊

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In Farthest Seas in @thoughtofthething.bsky.social's list of books to look out for this year! 🌊

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Ayşegül Savaş has now called Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas "one of the most beautiful books I have ever read" 🎉 Her full quote: "Romano's miraculous work opens layer by layer, always guarding its innermost mystery. This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read." Coming later this year!

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A little year-end surprise for me: Ayşegül Savaş—whose beautiful novel The Anthropologists has been on so many 2024 books lists—has called Lalla Romano’s forthcoming IN FARTHEST SEAS “one of the most mindblowing literary experiences of the year”! Do find room in your 2025 for this one 💝

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We have a cover! Lalla Romano's masterpiece IN FARTHEST SEAS Called "an extraordinarily powerful book" by Jhumpa Lahiri & "a miracle" by Marina Jarre, I simply don't think people will see love, death or Italian lit the same way after this one. Now in time for your 2025 lists 🌊 @pushkinpress.com

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Zachary Issenberg includes Michele Mari's Verdigris in his Year in Reading for The Millions. From slugs to whales! 🐳 @andotherstories.bsky.social themillions.com/2024/12/year...

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Viva Lalla Romano! Really pleased that my translation of Lalla's beautiful novel A SILENCE SHARED has been shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, and alongside @jennymcphee.bsky.social & @fromtheitalian.bsky.social no less! 💙 Many thanks to @societyofauthors.bsky.social and to the judges.

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Italian publishers have once again proved to be trendsetters

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Would you believe she wrote one of the great novels on love and death? (Yes, you would.) Happy bday to Lalla Romano 🖤

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

In this weekend's WSJ, @ssacks.bsky.social reviews Michele Mari's Verdigris, and I'm truly honored he thought so highly of the novel and of my translation! "superbly translated... Verdigris is a delightful game, up until the moment it turns deadly serious." ☠️

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Very pleased to share this stimulating review of Michele Mari's VERDIGRIS by @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social in the Financial Times! Currently unpaywalled: ft.com/content/f9bb... My translation of "the Italian master," meanwhile, is called "lively and inventive," which I appreciate!

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Lots of horror and fantasy in Michele Mari's VERDIGRIS, which is coming out in my translation from And Other Stories in January! Here's an early review if you're interested: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... (Mari has also written extensively on sci-fi, in his collection You, Bleeding Childhood)

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I was asked to share a few thoughts about translating Michele Mari's magical novel Verdigris for Asymptote (dark magic, of course). Part of a series on this year's PEN Translates winners. Coming out in one month and a day! 🔮 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/11...

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