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/
from Shout Out by Roberto Saviano (coming in 2026 from @sevenstories.bsky.social): Comedian Lenny Bruce “said that you should never deny people the chance to say 'fuck you,' because it’s denying them the chance to say 'fuck politics' to a government they don’t like...
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
from Shout Out by Roberto Saviano (coming in 2026 from @sevenstories.bsky.social): Comedian Lenny Bruce “said that you should never deny people the chance to say 'fuck you,' because it’s denying them the chance to say 'fuck politics' to a government they don’t like...
The Financial Times: "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by Anne Milano Appel ... creates a nuanced, magical sense of tension between an active life and the contemplative nature of writing."
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A Fictional Inquiry — in the footsteps of a man of letters
Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the contemplative act of writing
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Financial Times: "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by Anne Milano Appel ... creates a nuanced, magical sense of tension between an active life and the contemplative nature of writing."
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY reviewed in @financialtimes.com : "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social ”
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A FICTIONAL INQUIRY reviewed in @financialtimes.com : "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social ”
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY praised @thespectator1828.bsky.social as "a memorable metaphysical detective story" in "elegant translation"by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social about literary legend Bobi Bazlen who "brought out the first Italian editions of Freud, Kafka and Musil,but produced no writing of his own."
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A FICTIONAL INQUIRY praised @thespectator1828.bsky.social as "a memorable metaphysical detective story" in "elegant translation"by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social about literary legend Bobi Bazlen who "brought out the first Italian editions of Freud, Kafka and Musil,but produced no writing of his own."
The Spectator magazine praises A FICTIONAL INQUIRY (New Vessel Press) as "a memorable metaphysical detective story ... But everything assumes another dimension if we know that the man at the centre of it all, Bobi Bazlen, really existed. ... " www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-ph...
A philosophical quest: A Fictional Inquiry, by Daniele del Giudice, reviewed
A researcher arrives in Trieste to piece together the life of a well-known literary figure. In cafés, bookshops and hospitals he visits the friends and lovers who were part of the writer’s circle. Now...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Spectator magazine praises A FICTIONAL INQUIRY (New Vessel Press) as "a memorable metaphysical detective story ... But everything assumes another dimension if we know that the man at the centre of it all, Bobi Bazlen, really existed. ... " www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-ph...
"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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November 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"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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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).