Adria Bernardi

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Name Adria Bernardi		Role Novelist

Books Houses with Names, The day laid on the altar, In the Gathering Woods, Openwork: A Novel, Dead Meander

Adria Bernardi is an American novelist and translator.

Life

Her work appears in Metamorphoses.

She is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College, and teaches at Clark University.

Awards

2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship

2007 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards

2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize recipient, selected by Frank Conroy

1999 Bakeless Fiction Prize

1998 recipient of the A. E. Coppard Award for Short Fiction

1995 recipient of the James Fellowship for Novel

Novel

Openwork; In the Gathering Woods. Southern Methodist University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-87074-510-2.

The Day Laid on the Altar. University Press of New England. 1999.

Translation

Raffaello Baldini. "Night". AGNI.

Raffaello Baldini (2001). Page Proof. Bordighera. ISBN 978-1-884419-47-8. theatrical monologue

Gianni Celati (2000). Adventures in Africa. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-09955-2.

Tonino Guerra (1999). Abandoned places: poems. Translator Adria Bernardi. Guernica Editions. ISBN 978-1-55071-030-4.

Non-fiction

Houses with Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois. University of Illinois Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-252-01581-6.

Review

When news arrives from the outside world, Bartolomeo notes: We hear it in fragments, we hear it in imperfect remnants. Like this artist, who creates his work from shards of glass and pottery, Bernardi pulls all of this novel's disparate elements together.

References

Adria Bernardi Wikipedia

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