Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She has published widely on contemporary Italian literature, women’s writing and on the relationship between migration, self-translation and identity. Recent publications include two co-edited volumes: Words, Images and Performances in Translation (2012) and Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship (2012).

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Review: Rita Wilsonon Italo Calvino
  • Italo Calvino Letters, 1941-1985 by Michael Wood (editor)
  • Italo Calvino Letters, 1941-1985 by Michael Wood (editor) and Martin McLaughlin (translator) Princeton University Press
    640pp
    $71.00 AU
    Published April, 2013
    ISBN 9780691139456

‘He must be killed’: Italo Calvino Letters

What this collection most clearly documents is Calvino’s tireless activism in the service of ‘the renewal of the Italian cultural climate’. In the letter he wrote to the influential Marxist literary magazine Il Contemporaneo in 1956, for example, he acerbically critiques the way it fails to keep up with contemporary Italian literature…
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