Paola Capriolo Explained

Paola Capriolo (born 1 January 1962^[1]) is an Italian novelist and translator.^[2]

The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin,^[2] 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^[3] which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize.^[1]

Her work explores a reality outside of day-to-day life. Myth plays an important role in her writing.^[4] She often is inspired by music, including references to music and making use of musical metaphors.^[3]

Capriolo is also a reviewer for Corriere della Sera and a translator of German fiction.^[1] Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese.^[3]

Selected works

Novels/short stories

• Il nocchiero (1989), received the Rapallo Carige Prize in 1990^[5] and was a finalist for the Premio Campiello in 1991^[1]
• Il doppio regno (1991) was a finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1992^[6]
• 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)^[3]
• 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)^[3]

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)^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies . 377–78 . Marrone, Gaetana . Puppa. Paolo . 2006 . 1135455295.
2. Web site: Un altro mondo: interview with Paola Capriolo, Milan, November 1996 . University of Salford . November 1996.
3. Web site: Paola Capriolo . The Institute of Modern Languages Research . 2014-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025235220/http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing-ccww/languages/italian/paola-capriolo . 2014-10-25 . dead .
4. Book: Wilson, Rita . The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions . 210–21 . Billiani, Francesca . Sulis, Gigliola . 2007 . 0838641261.
5. Web site: Premio Rapallo Carige . Book Awards . LibraryThing.
6. Book: Healey, Robin . Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-1997 . 382 . 1998 . 0802008003.