English translator
Richard Dixon is an English translator ofItalian literature . He translated the last works ofUmberto Eco , including his novelsThe Prague Cemetery Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, andNumero Zero John Florio Prize , 2016. He has also translated works byGiacomo Leopardi ,Roberto Calasso andAntonio Moresco .
Richard Dixon was born inCoventry , in 1956. He was educated atKing Henry VIII School andLanchester Polytechnic , where he graduated in Business Law. He practised as a barrister in London for ten years before moving to Italy in 1989, where he now lives.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Selected translations [ edit ] The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco , 2011: shortlisted for theIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize , 2012Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco, 2012Zibaldone Giacomo Leopardi (with other translators), 2013The Combover by Adrián N. Bravi, 2013Author’s revisions toThe Name of the Rose Ardor byRoberto Calasso , 2014The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso, 2015Numero Zero John Florio Prize , 2016: Commended translationDante: The Story of His Life byMarco Santagata , 2016[ 4] Distant Light byAntonio Moresco , 2016: shortlisted for theAmerican Literary Translators Association Italian Prose in Translation Award, 2017,[ 5] International Dublin Literary Award , 2018[ 6] The Experience of Pain Carlo Emilio Gadda , 2017Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco, 2017The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, 2018The Javelin Thrower byPaolo Volponi , 2019[ 7] The Unnamable Present [ 8] Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s Decision and the Fate of Rome by Luca Fezzi, 2019[ 9] The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso, 2020[ 10] The Lehman Trilogy Stefano Massini , 2020[ 11] How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco (with co-translator Alastair McEwen), 2020[ 12] Valse Triste byMarcello Fois , 2021[ 13] The Book of Nonexistent Words by Stefano Massini, 2021[ 14] South 1982 by Adrián N. Bravi, 2022[ 15] Clandestinity byAntonio Moresco , 2022[ 16] Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness by Emanuele Coccia, 2024[ 17] The World Machine [ 18] Hope:The Autobiography Pope Francis , 2025[ 19] There Was a Time for Such a Word by Gianni Solla, 2025[ 20] He has also translated contemporary Italian poets,[ 21] Franco Buffoni [ 22] [ 23] Eugenio De Signoribus [ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27]
^ "You searched for Richard Dixon" .^ "Richard Dixon | Translator" .www.write.it . Retrieved22 July 2021 .^ "Richard Dixon - the Society of Authors" . 6 November 2023.^ "Dante — Marco Santagata" .www.hup.harvard.edu . Retrieved22 July 2021 .^ rcldaum (21 August 2017)."IPTA 2017 Shortlist: Distant Light" .ALTA Blog . Retrieved22 July 2021 . ^ Awards, Dublin Literary."The 2018 shortlist is announced, 5th April – DUBLIN Literary Award" . Retrieved22 July 2021 . ^ The Javelin Thrower ^ "The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon – review" ,Kirkus Reviews , 19 December 2019.^ "Crossing the Rubicon by Luca Fezzi" .^ "The Celestial Hunter by Robert Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon - review" ,The Spectator , 25 April 2020.^ "The Lehman Trilogy" .HarperCollins . Retrieved22 July 2021 .^ "How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco" .Penguin Random House Canada . Retrieved22 July 2021 .^ Fois, Marcello (14 April 2020).Valse Triste ISBN 9780857058843 ^ "The Book of Nonexistent Words" .HarperCollins . Retrieved22 July 2021 .^ https://www.jetstonepublishers.com/splash_20th-century.html .ISBN 9781910858233 ^ https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781646051724 .ISBN 978-1-64605-172-4 ^ Philosophy of the Home ^ "The World Machine" .^ HOPE ^ There Was a Time for Such a Word ^ Nineteen poets inItalian Contemporary Poets: an anthology , Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, pp. 81-85, ed. Franco Buffoni,ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0 ^ Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature , (Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014) pp. 189–203; ed. Pietro MontorfaniISBN 1-892021-53-6 ^ Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology , (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–43, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016,ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0 ^ Nuovi Argomenti ^ The Journal of Italian Translation , vol. VIII no. 2, fall 2013, pp.11 - 21^ Almost Island , Issue no. 11, December 2014^ The World Poetry Review , Issue 9, 2024 -https://worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/13/four-poems-by-eugenio-de-signoribus/
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