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Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge
and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He has written
eleven novels including Europa,
Destiny,
Cleaver and, most recently,
Dreams of Rivers and Seas, as well as three non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy
(most recently
A Season with Verona),
a collection of 'narrative' essays,
Adultery and Other Diversions, and a history of the Medici bank in 15th century Florence,
Medici Money. His many translations from the
Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and Machiavelli. He lectures on
literary translation in Milan and has published a book,
Translating Style, which analyses
Italian translations of the English modernists, plus two collections of essays
Hell and Back and
The Fighter that range from Dante to Leopardi, Borges to Rushdie, Garibaldi to Mussolini.
Okay, there's the basic info. If you want to click on
novels or
non-fiction
there's some more detailed stuff on each of the books, a personal
reflection on when and where it was written and what I thought I was doing, and
then a couple of reviews, pictures, etc. If you want to buy a book, go to the bottom
of the page describing it and you'll find a direct link to Amazon. Enjoy
wandering about...
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The photo was taken by my brother John...
