Claudia Durastanti Explained

Claudia Durastanti
Birth Date:8 June 1984
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Novelist, translator, journalist
Years Active:2010–present

Claudia Durastanti (born 8 June 1984) is an Italian writer and translator.

Early life

Durastanti was born in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bensonhurst to two deaf Italian parents, who divorced in 1990. After their divorce, Durastanti (aged 6) moved to the Basilicata region of southern Italy with her mother. This and other aspects of her life (like an incident in which her father kidnapped her as a child) are described in her semi-autobiographical novel La Straniera (published in English as Strangers I Know).[1] [2] [3]

Durastanti studied cultural anthropology at the Sapienza University of Rome and continued her studies at De Montfort University. She then returned to Rome where she earned a master's degree in publishing and journalism.[4]

Career

Durastanti was shortlisted for the 2019 Strega Prize and Viareggio Prize with La Straniera (La nave di Teseo, 2019). The book is translated into twenty-one languages and is being adapted into a TV show.[5]

Her work has appeared in Granta, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Serving Library.

She is a board member of the Turin International Book Fair and co-founded the Italian Festival of Literature in London.[6]

She has translated several works into Italian, including Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus and Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble, as well as Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

She writes a music column for Internazionale and serves as a curator for the feminist imprint La Tartaruga, founded by Laura Lepetit in 1975.

Personal life

At various points in her life, she has lived in Brooklyn, Basilicata, London, and Rome. After the publication of Strangers I Know, she briefly lived in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving back to Rome, where she lived as of January 2023.[7] [5] [8]

Works

In Italian

In English

Translations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Durastanti . Claudia . 2019 . Claudia Durastanti . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20230530105413/http://santamaddalena.org/claudia-durastanti/ . 30 May 2023 . 16 December 2023 . Santa Maddalena Foundation.
  2. Web site: Peschel . Joseph . February 2022 . Claudia Durastanti's Strangers I Know . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216185707/https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/books/Claudia-Durastantis-Strangers-I-Know . 16 December 2023 . 16 December 2023 . Brooklyn Rail.
  3. Book: Durastanti, Claudia . La straniera . Fitzcarraldo Editions . 2022 . 978-1-913097-83-7 . Great Britain . English . Harris . Elizabeth . Strangers I Know.
  4. Web site: Claudia Durastanti. Maxim Gorki Theater. 18 December 2023.
  5. Web site: Colleran. Mia. 28 January 2022. A Formal Feeling: A Conversation with Claudia Durastanti. 17 August 2024. The Paris Review. en-US.
  6. Web site: Claudia Durastanti. 21 January 2022. Granta. en-US.
  7. Web site: Chianese . Francesco . 16 May 2022 . From "La Straniera" to "Strangers I know": Claudia Durastanti's Journey through Languages, Cultures, Genres, and Genders . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230925063649/https://readingintranslation.com/2022/05/16/claudia-durastantis-strangers-i-know/ . 25 September 2023 . 16 December 2023 . Reading in Translation.
  8. Web site: Handal . Nathalie . 18 January 2023 . The City and the Writer: In Rome with Claudia Durastanti . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606221102/https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-01/the-city-and-the-writer-in-rome-with-claudia-durastanti-nathalie-handal/ . 6 June 2023 . 16 December 2023 . Words Without Borders.
  9. Web site: STRANGERS I KNOW . 26 January 2022 . Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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