Brian Robert Moore
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Literary translator from the Italian: Michele Mari (Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood), Lalla Romano (A Silence Shared and In Farthest Seas), Walter Siti (Paradise Overload)
It's #WITMonth here's what I'm looking forward to reading, a few thanks to reviews @jacquiwine.bsky.social that top up my WIT TBR annually. 1st up #LallaRomano A Silence Shared 'A thoroughly hypnotic novel, full of beauty & sadness, written with such brilliance & meticulous care' says #SaraBaume
New on the blog today, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann), Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...
Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth
As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English and then translated for English-speaking …
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New on the blog today, a mid-year round-up featuring my favourite books from Jan to June 2026 - highlights from 6 months of reading. Including novels by Anita Brookner, Penelope Mortimer, Rumer Godden, Olivia Manning, Henry Van Dyke & more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/m...
My favourite books from Jan – June 2026
Now that we’re well into July, I thought it might be interesting to put together a mid-year review, summarising my reading highlights from January to June. I seem to say this every year, but 2026 i…
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Haven’t yet decided on what I’ll read for women in translation month in August, but here are some recommendations Fleur Jaggy, Anna Seghers, Tove Ditlevsen, Colette, Shahrnush Parsipur, OlgaTokarczuk, Lalla Romano Titles, translators and original languages in alt text. #WITMonth
Michele Mari has won his third PEN Translates award in a row from @englishpen.bsky.social for All the Iron in the Eiffel Tower! Can’t wait for people to read this masterpiece in the form of high-modernist detective story: www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p... @andotherstories.bsky.social
Michele Mari has won Italy's most important literary award, the Strega Prize! Thrilled that his novel I convitati di pietra, provisionally titled The Stone Guests, will be published in English in my translation – along with two other masterpieces of his for @andotherstories.bsky.social!
What's summer without a little love & death? Critic Molly Fischer writes that she’s loving Lalla Romano’s IN FARTHEST SEAS in @newyorker.com! 💙🌊 @pushkinpress-us.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo agoBeach-reading season is upon us, and there’s a lot to look forward to. www.newyorker.com/books/what-w...
This week the Italian Cultural Institute in New York will be reading my translation of Michele Mari's enthralling Verdigris, and I'm looking forward to joining the discussion. Still some spots left, can RSVP here!: iicnewyork.esteri.it/en/gli_event... @andotherstories.bsky.social
BOOK CLUB – Monthly reading
BOOK CLUB Book of the month: Verdigris by Michele Mari Translated by Brian Robert Moore Special guest: Brian Robert Moore, translator, winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize and the 2025 Italian Pro...
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Episode 5 of Books and Their Makers: Tolka @ 10 Catherine and Liam from @tolkajournal.bsky.social spoke to me on the launch of their tenth issue - they talked about how one of the best contemporary lit mags around started, how it developed, and where it might be going: radio.moli.ie/r/tolka-at-ten
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Currently reading A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore. I read and reviewed her novel In Farthest Seas last year. She is an elegant and perceptive writer, with precision character writing. This is set in the Italian countryside near Turin during WWII.
Finished A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, tr Brian Robert Moore. Set towards the end of WWII in a small village near Turin, a woman lives with her friend and the friend's sick husband. The slow unwinding of the occupation and the austerity of war is a backdrop to a subtle, beautifully drawn novel.
New York–area readers and friends: See you at our Issue 52 launch party on Thursday? www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
"There is a genuine sense of honesty and vulnerability here, a palpable poignancy that cuts close to the bone." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i... #intranslation Via @jacquiwine.bsky.social
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
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‘…and for a moment I felt an attraction for him that was violent, secret, but I believe already tenaciously deep. It wasn’t an idea, it was a sensation; head-spinning, but not unsettling. Rather, familiar.’ #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
ICYMI, @jacquiwine.bsky.social came out swinging for Lalla Romano 🌊 "Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking (...) are valid comparisons, for sure, but to my mind, Romano’s prose style is more poetic than either Didion’s or Ernaux’s. There is a graceful lyricism here".
JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew on the blog today, my thoughts on IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore). I loved this profound, intimate and deeply moving elegy to Cenzo Monti, Romano’s husband of fifty years. Fans of Annie Ernaux might appreciate this. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
'Everything went dark. That was it, the true sentence. In that moment I lost him, I knew I had lost him. Suddenly time had been cut frighteningly short; like for a person plummeting who sees moving towards her the ground where she’ll be crushed.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
ICYMI, @jacquiwine.bsky.social came out swinging for Lalla Romano 🌊 "Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking (...) are valid comparisons, for sure, but to my mind, Romano’s prose style is more poetic than either Didion’s or Ernaux’s. There is a graceful lyricism here".
JacquiWine@jacquiwine.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew on the blog today, my thoughts on IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore). I loved this profound, intimate and deeply moving elegy to Cenzo Monti, Romano’s husband of fifty years. Fans of Annie Ernaux might appreciate this. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
New on the blog today, my thoughts on IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore). I loved this profound, intimate and deeply moving elegy to Cenzo Monti, Romano’s husband of fifty years. Fans of Annie Ernaux might appreciate this. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore)
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
Now reading Verdigris by Michele Mari
🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪@chateaucat.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow reading Jazz by Toni Morrison
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago. Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
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Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago. Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
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2025 for me was above all a year of Lalla Romano. Belatedly want to thank everyone on here who read this truly important writer so far! She still deserves more attention but we're that much closer 💙 More on '26 projects soon For @literaryhub.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com: lithub.com/lalla-romano...
Check out full and very effusive review on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/verd...
Verdigris by Michele Mari
From Switzerland we take a little hop and a skip into northern Italy, specifically Lake Maggiore (which indeed has its northern toe sticking...
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ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS 86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now #booksky #bookreview #italy #readingtheworld
Now I need to find and read IN FARTHEST SEAS. Why is there not more Lalla Romano in translation? Once more reality betrays me.
A SILENCE SHARED is probably the most perfect, beautiful, and meaningful novel I've read in a while. If you want it to have a higher political significance: this is a portrait of revolutionary tenderness. Something to think about.
Lalla Romano makes me completely inhabit her world. And yet there's nothing especially intricate or elaborately descriptive in her prose. It's that speaks of things with a lucid care for them that brings them to life.
I'm really enjoying the quiet, unassuming, somehow intimate narration in A SILENCE SHARED by Lalla Romano, as translated by Brian Robert Moore. Also I keep pretending the author is actually Lalla Ward as the Time Lady Romana but that's my personal problem.
Looking forward to reading this.
Brian Robert Moore@brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 8mo ago"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one" Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...
