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The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors,[1] with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize was established in 1963. As of 1980 it is awarded biannually for the best English translation of a full-length work of literary merit and general interest from Italian.[2]

  1. ^ "Past winners - John Florio Prize (Italian)". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  2. ^ "John Florio Prize (Italian)". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

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The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts...

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Quintin Hoare

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and German: the John Florio Prize in 1978/9 for Antonio Gramsci's Selections from Political Writings 1921–26, the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1984 for Sartre's...

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Society of Authors

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Translation Prize, for translation from any language (annual) The Goethe-Institut Award, for German Translation (biennial) The John Florio Prize, for Italian...

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Tim Parks

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"canonical in the field of translation studies". He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian. In 2011 he co-curated the exhibition...

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If This Is a Man

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was published in 1965, again by Stuart Woolf, and was awarded the John Florio Prize for Italian translation in 1966. The book is introduced by a poem...

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Jane Grigson

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John Florio Prize for Italian translation in 1966, and her food books won three Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards and two André Simon Memorial Prizes...

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Coppa Florio

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The Coppa Florio (or Florio Cup) was a motorsport race for automobiles first held in Italy in 1900. It was renamed in 1905 when Vincenzo Florio offered...

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Serena Professor of Italian

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century. "Serena Medal". Professor E. R. Vincent was awarded the John Florio Prize for A Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand by Giuseppe Cesare Abba;...

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Patrick Creagh

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Magris, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 Blind Argus by Gesualdo Bufalino, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano...

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Mario Petrucci

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and in 2022 he was invited by the Society of Authors to judge the John Florio Prize for Italian translation. He has published versions of Catullus, Sappho...

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Isabel Quigly

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Silvano Ceccherini's The Transfer, for which, in 1967, she won the John Florio Prize, and Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. According...

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Anne Milano Appel

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Giordano, Giovanni Arpino and Goliarda Sapienza. She was awarded the John Florio Prize in 2012 for her translation of Arpino's Scent of a Woman. She is also...

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William Weaver

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Foucault's Pendulum 1991 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation The John Florio Prize for Italian Translations from The Society of Authors 1969, for Pier Pasolini's...

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Eugenio Montale

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Petrucci, winner of the 2016 PEN Translates Award, shortlisted for 2018 John Florio Prize. 2017: Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English...

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Claudio Morandini

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Ockenden won the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. In 2022 "Snow, dog, foot" is runner-up in the John Florio Prize. Nora e le ombre (Palomar 2006) Le larve...

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Frances Frenaye

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d'ombre: Romanzo), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975: winner of the 1976 John Florio Prize Antonio Tabucchi: Little Misunderstandings of No Importance (Ital...

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Gesualdo Bufalino

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Harvill, 1989, 1992. For this translation, Patrick Creagh won the John Florio Prize. Night's Lies, translated by Patrick Creagh, London: Harvill, 1990;...

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Ruth Feldman

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1999 Feldman and John P. Welle Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize John Florio Prize in England Circe-Sabaudia in Italy Italo Calvino Prize in the United States...

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Stuart Woolf

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Holocaust and Woolf's translation of The Truce was awarded a share of the John Florio Prize in Italian translation in 1966. Woolf's nephew is the British-Canadian...

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Ermanno Florio

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Ermanno Florio (born March 29, 1954) is an Italian-born Canadian orchestra conductor. He was music director of Houston Ballet from 1992 to 2024, and has...

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Luigi Meneghello

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Meneghello’ (obituary), The Times, 1 August 2007 Past winners of the John Florio Prize at the Society of Authors website it:Luigi Meneghello Foreword from...

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Jamie McKendrick

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Giorgio Bassani have been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize and for the John Florio award. Other awards include: 2020 Michael Marks Illustration...

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Martini Racing

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Porsche 917, but also the nimble Porsche 908/3 on twisty tracks like Targa Florio and 1000km Nürburgring. During the 1970s, Martini became famous in connection...

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Christian de Portzamparc

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architects (Tokyo, A.D.A edita, 2002 Christian de Portzamparc by Riccardo Florio, Edited by Officina Edizioni, 1997 Christian de Portzamparc G.A. Document...

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Enzo Ferrari

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M.N. 15/20. On 23 November of the same year, he took part in the Targa Florio but had to retire after his car's fuel tank developed a leak. Due to the...

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Frances Yates

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16th-century theatre and the life of the linguist and lexicographer John Florio. In 1941, she was employed by the Warburg Institute in London, and began...

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Profile in Courage Award

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www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2016-09-12. Annan, Kofi. "The Nobel Peace Prize 2001". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 25 July 2013. "Kofi Annan | Ghanaian statesman...

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