NYRB NEWS
Jenny McPhee wins ALTA 2024 Italian Prose in Translation Award for 'Lies and Sorcery'
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has honored Jenny McPhee with the 2024 Italian Prose in Translation Award for her recent translation of Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery
Translation, Women, and Italian Literature: The Life and Work of Natalia Ginzburg
On April 28, NYU's Casa Italiana hosted a panel celebrating the life and work of Natalia Ginzburg, author of Family Lexicon. Jenny McPhee, translator of the NYRB Classics edition of the book, spoke with Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein, Giovanna Calvino, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and moderator Ruth Ben-Ghiat. You can watch the full discussion here.