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Name
  
Paola Capriolo


Role
  
Novelist


Books
  
Floria Tosca, A Man of Character, The Woman Watching, The Dual Realm, La grande Eulalia

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Paola Capriolo (b. January 1, 1962) is an Italian novelist and translator.

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The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin, she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a degree in philosophy in 1996. In 1988, she published her first book La grande Eulalia, a collection of short stories which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize.

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Her work explores a reality outside of day-to-day life. Myth plays an important role in her writing. She often is inspired by music, including references to music and making use of musical metaphors.

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Capriolo is also a reviewer for Corriere della Sera and a translator of German fiction. Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese.

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Novels/short stories

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  • Il nocchiero (1989), received the Rapallo Carige Prize in 1990 and was a finalist for the Premio Campiello in 1991
  • Il doppio regno (1991) was a finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1992
  • Vissi d’amore (1992)
  • La spettatrice (1995)
  • Un uomo di carattere (1996)
  • Barbara (1998)
  • Una di loro (2001)
  • Qualcosa nella notte. Storia di Gilgamesh, signore di Uruk, e dell'uomo selvatico cresciuto tra le gazzelle (2003)
  • ll pianista muto (2009)
  • Caino (2012)
  • Mi ricordo (2015)
  • Children's literature

  • La ragazza dalla stella d'oro (1991)
  • L’amico invisibile (2006)
  • Maria Callas (2007)
  • Indira Gandhi (2009)
  • La macchina dei sogni (2009)
  • Translations from German

  • La morte a Venice Thomas Mann (1991)
  • I dolori del giovane Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1993)
  • Le affinità elettive Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1995)
  • Doppio sogno Arthur Schnitzler (2002)
  • Pietre colorate Adalbert Stifter (2005)
  • Metamorfosi Franz Kafka (2011)
  • References

    Paola Capriolo Wikipedia