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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The 4th Italian-English ViceVersa workshop will be held from 3-10 November at Villa Garbald, Switzerland. ViceVersa is an intensive week-long residential workshop for 12 translators at various stages of their career. Submission deadline 30/07/2026. Full details at: looren.net/assets/image...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'm thrilled to part of the Winter Olympics with my English translation of Gianni Rodari's PROMEMORIA: www.youtube.com/shorts/hGlq-...

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Don't miss this week's powerful bilingual reading by celebrated translator Richard Dixon and author Gianni Solla from THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD, a gripping debut, an all too timely novel about friendships forged in times of inhumanity, and a love story of overwhelming power. buff.ly/wpDiMVB

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Gianni Sola & translator Richard Dixon read from THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD (HarperVia, 2025)

THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD, Gianni Solla's debut novel in English, has been translated into thirteen languages. Set in a remote part of southern Italy during World War II, it tells the story of…

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

THERE WAS A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD, Gianni Solla's debut novel in English, is published this month in my translation for HarperVia. Set in southern Italy during World War II, it's the story of Davide, his escape from a cruel family life and his salvation through the liberating power of language.

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

One year after Italian Lit Month, hosted by Globel Literature in Libraries Initiative, New Italian Books has reposted all fifty articles: www.newitalianbooks.it/wp-content/u...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I've had the honour of translating HOPE:The Autobiography, by Pope Francis, published this month by Penguin Random House and well reviewed throughout the world - the first autobiography of a sitting pope, told in an easy, intimate style, with vivid descriptions, and a voice of profound empathy.

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Leah Janeczko @fromtheitalian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo is on the 2024 John Florio Prize shortlist! Many thanks to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social and to the Italian Cultural Institute, London. And congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, Brian Robert Moore, Gregory Conti and Jenny McPhee!

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I'm presenting my translation of "The World Machine", by Paolo Volponi, published by Seagull Books, at the Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Square, London, on Monday 25 November at 6.30 pm, in conversation with Francesca Limana, David Best. Information at: iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

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Volponi, Olivetti and The World Machine

Volponi, Olivetti and The World Machine Francesca Limana, David Albert Best and Richard Dixon in conversation Monday 25 November, 6.30pm at ICI London In the centenary year of Paolo Volponi’s birth, o...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I was honoured to be one of 18 translators invited to the Frankfurt Bookfair to represent 18 languages throughout Europe, guests of Salone Internazionale del Libro Torino. Thank you Lorenza Honorati and the mythical Ilide Carmignani. So many meetings and - best of all - so many chance encounters!

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

My thanks to the Global Literature in Libraries Initative and to Leah Janeczko, curator of Italian Lit Month, for featuring my translation of The World Machine by Paolo Volponi at: glli-us.org/2024/10/09/i...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Italian Lit Month - here's a new initiative from Italian-to-English literary translators to celebrate Italy as Guest of Honor at the forthcoming Frankfurter Buchmesse: a daily blog hosted by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) for the month of October - glli-us.org/articles/

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

The poetry of Eugenio De Signoribus deserves a wider readership in the English speaking world. My translations of four of his poems have recently appeared in the World Poetry Review: worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/13/f...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

New Italian Books have asked me to write a piece about the book I would like to translate. Here it is: www.newitalianbooks.it/canto-di-dar...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Anish Kapoor - "Untrue Unreal" - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence - "versality, discord, entropy and ephemerality." An unforgettable exhibition closing February 4th: www.palazzostrozzi.org/archivio/mos...

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Centenary celebrations in Urbino for poet and novelist Paolo Volponi, twice winner of the Premio Strega, begin on February 6th: centenariovolponi.uniurb.it

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Richard Dixon @richarddixon.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

LRB Bookshop London, current bestsellers: at no.2 - *How to Spot a Fascist* by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon and Alastair McEwen

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