Anne Milano Appel
@annemilanoappel.bsky.social
Literary translator, from Italian to English. Member of ALTA, ATA, NCTA, PEN, Authors Guild. San Francisco Bay Area. https://amilanoappel.com/
"Explores the nature of perception while critiquing both writers and the writing life. Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time."—On the Seawall
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on A Fictional Inquiry, a novel by Daniele Del Guidice, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel – On the Seawall
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"Explores the nature of perception while critiquing both writers and the writing life. Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time."—On the Seawall
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atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
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Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure.
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“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by Anne Milano Appel. | Lit Hub Fiction
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A Fictional Inquiry
A Fictional Inquiry tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste and London to retrace the footsteps of a fabled literary figure. The novel is inspired by the life of Trieste-born Roberto (“Bobi”)…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by Anne Milano Appel. | Lit Hub Fiction
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Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913
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Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time.
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An insightful review of Daniele Del Giudice’s “A Fictional Inquiry,” forthcoming from @NewVesselPress , by prof. Loredana Polezzi. I especially resonated with Polezzi’s personal touch about starting to read Del Giudice again.
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An Investigation into the Nature of Fiction and Reality
Loredana Polezzi reviews Daniele Del Giudice's book "A Fictional Journey" (Lo stadio di Wimbledon), translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An insightful review of Daniele Del Giudice’s “A Fictional Inquiry,” forthcoming from @NewVesselPress , by prof. Loredana Polezzi. I especially resonated with Polezzi’s personal touch about starting to read Del Giudice again.
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A very perceptive review of Daniele Del Giuidice's A Fictional Inquiry, Tony. From New Vessel Press.
An intriguing journey in search of information about a very special man, in Trieste and... Wimbledon? My look at Daniele Del Giuidice's 'A Fictional Enquiry' (translated by Anne Milano Appel, courtesy of New Vessel Press):
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‘A Fictional Enquiry’ by Daniele Del Giudice (Review)
While I tend to move in rather familiar reading circles, it’s nice to try something a little different once in a while, and that was certainly the case with my latest read, one sent my way by…
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October 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A very perceptive review of Daniele Del Giuidice's A Fictional Inquiry, Tony. From New Vessel Press.
Congratulations to @wwborders.bsky.social for having now published ten Nobel laureates in their 22-year history as the home for international literature, the latest being László Krasznahorkai. And congratulations to all the translators who translated them.
October 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Congratulations to @wwborders.bsky.social for having now published ten Nobel laureates in their 22-year history as the home for international literature, the latest being László Krasznahorkai. And congratulations to all the translators who translated them.
A Fictional Inquiry @NewVesselPress remedies a lack observed earlier in The Modern Novel: “that Lo stadio di Wimbledon ... has never been translated into English is a sad commentary on the state of the novel in the English language.” www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w-eur...
August 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A Fictional Inquiry @NewVesselPress remedies a lack observed earlier in The Modern Novel: “that Lo stadio di Wimbledon ... has never been translated into English is a sad commentary on the state of the novel in the English language.” www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w-eur...
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We're now open for fiction, nonfiction and experimental submissions at Minor Literature[s] for the month of August.
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Daniele Del Giudice's first published novel (Einaudi, 1983).
"It isn’t hard to see why this has become a cult classic ... evocative passages ... make this slim book so memorably disconcerting. A haunting novel with traces of thrillers and metafiction in its text."—Kirkus Reviews on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, translation by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Daniele Del Giudice's first published novel (Einaudi, 1983).
Andrea Canobbio: "La figura del matematico mi è sempre sembrata eccezionalmente ricca di possibili sviluppi narrativi, perché ambigua: da un lato l’apparente certezza del calcolo, delle formule, delle dimostrazioni, ...
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August 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Andrea Canobbio: "La figura del matematico mi è sempre sembrata eccezionalmente ricca di possibili sviluppi narrativi, perché ambigua: da un lato l’apparente certezza del calcolo, delle formule, delle dimostrazioni, ...
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“How is it the books that should be popular aren’t in fact popular? And why are the books that shouldn’t be popular selling so many copies?” --Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln reflects on the "decline of literature" discourse. tinyurl.com/yc3k24fd
Brooks, Books, and the Imagined Realties of Publishing
One last post on "decline of literature" discourse...
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July 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“How is it the books that should be popular aren’t in fact popular? And why are the books that shouldn’t be popular selling so many copies?” --Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln reflects on the "decline of literature" discourse. tinyurl.com/yc3k24fd
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggested that Western-style charismatic politics, inherent in a single individual, ended with Hitler, but was apparently wrong. Molly Worthen, Spellbound LARB, lareviewofbooks.org/article/unve...
Unveiling a Hidden Narrative | Los Angeles Review of Books
John G. Turner explores Molly Worthen’s “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.”
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July 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggested that Western-style charismatic politics, inherent in a single individual, ended with Hitler, but was apparently wrong. Molly Worthen, Spellbound LARB, lareviewofbooks.org/article/unve...
A new entry into “let’s make translators extinct”:
I fondatori dell’impresa ... hanno tenuto a precisare che non è loro intenzione sostituirsi ai traduttori umani, quanto piuttosto favorire una più ampia diffusione della letteratura. Marina Russo's Biblit tinyurl.com/55atfpht
I fondatori dell’impresa ... hanno tenuto a precisare che non è loro intenzione sostituirsi ai traduttori umani, quanto piuttosto favorire una più ampia diffusione della letteratura. Marina Russo's Biblit tinyurl.com/55atfpht
New entry nel mondo delle traduzioni automatiche
Mentre i tribunali cavillano sulla legittimità dell'uso di opere protette dal diritto d'autore per addestrare i cosiddetti LLM (Large Language Models) e le associazioni di categoria internazionali ...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A new entry into “let’s make translators extinct”:
I fondatori dell’impresa ... hanno tenuto a precisare che non è loro intenzione sostituirsi ai traduttori umani, quanto piuttosto favorire una più ampia diffusione della letteratura. Marina Russo's Biblit tinyurl.com/55atfpht
I fondatori dell’impresa ... hanno tenuto a precisare che non è loro intenzione sostituirsi ai traduttori umani, quanto piuttosto favorire una più ampia diffusione della letteratura. Marina Russo's Biblit tinyurl.com/55atfpht
Imagine if this were a jigsaw puzzle...!
Gustave Klimt
"The Park" - 1910 - Oil on canvas - 110.4 cm x 110.4 cm
"The Park" - 1910 - Oil on canvas - 110.4 cm x 110.4 cm
July 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Imagine if this were a jigsaw puzzle...!
“To me, writing is an act of listening. … The writing is this listening, to write is to listen.” - Jon Fosse in an interview in The New Yorker. Seems analogous to translation, which is to listen to what the author writes. tinyurl.com/ydk3tvfv
Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening
The author discusses his story “Elias.”
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June 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“To me, writing is an act of listening. … The writing is this listening, to write is to listen.” - Jon Fosse in an interview in The New Yorker. Seems analogous to translation, which is to listen to what the author writes. tinyurl.com/ydk3tvfv
I imagine you have your reasons for not labeling these as to location or year, though I always find myself trying to identify the setting...
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June 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I imagine you have your reasons for not labeling these as to location or year, though I always find myself trying to identify the setting...
Thank you for posting from my translation of Antonio Scurati's M Son of the Century (HarperCollins).
This from Son of the Century on Mussolini and the rise of fascism in Italy is a one-century-earlier blueprint for the January 6 insurrection, Trump pardoning those responsible and claiming to support police/law enforcement while promoting thugs.
June 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Thank you for posting from my translation of Antonio Scurati's M Son of the Century (HarperCollins).
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Today our free newsletter subscribers received a brilliant short story from our Summer 2025 issue, Monica Pareschi’s “The Seagulls,” translated from Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-seagulls
The Seagulls
A story by Monica Pareschi, translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel
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June 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today our free newsletter subscribers received a brilliant short story from our Summer 2025 issue, Monica Pareschi’s “The Seagulls,” translated from Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-seagulls
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"Appealing literary quest...An exploration of: 'why write?' and the meaning of the activity...this is an intriguing 'fictional inquiry.'" @maorthofer.bsky.social on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social.
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June 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Appealing literary quest...An exploration of: 'why write?' and the meaning of the activity...this is an intriguing 'fictional inquiry.'" @maorthofer.bsky.social on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social.
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Giovanni Padua scrive del romanzo di @vannisantoni.bsky.social: "Il romanzo di Santoni si innesta consapevolmente nell’immaginario narrativo degli shōnen, dove il sogno è il principio motore di ogni azione e trasformazione..." rivistastanca.com/il-pesce-che...
Il pesce che increspa la superficie dell’acqua – “Il detective sonnambulo” di Vanni Santoni - Stanca
Tra gli oggetti più sfuggenti e affascinanti del primo umanesimo tipografico, l’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili occupa una posizione singolare. Stampata a Venezia nel 1499 da Aldo Manuzio, è un romanzo alle...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Giovanni Padua scrive del romanzo di @vannisantoni.bsky.social: "Il romanzo di Santoni si innesta consapevolmente nell’immaginario narrativo degli shōnen, dove il sogno è il principio motore di ogni azione e trasformazione..." rivistastanca.com/il-pesce-che...
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"A metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic ... a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature."—Mark Haber, author of St. Sebastian's Abyss on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translator @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...
May 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"A metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic ... a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature."—Mark Haber, author of St. Sebastian's Abyss on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translator @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...
Noah Slaughter reviews A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudice (New Vessel Press, 2025): “A slow-moving, contemplative novel that “often feels like a series of riddles or questions” ... “the narrator himself remains largely an enigma to us.”
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A Fictional Inquiry – Daniele Del Giudice
In A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, representation is a matter of collecting loose ends and leaving them loose.
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May 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Noah Slaughter reviews A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudice (New Vessel Press, 2025): “A slow-moving, contemplative novel that “often feels like a series of riddles or questions” ... “the narrator himself remains largely an enigma to us.”
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