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webinar > Meet the Author Online: Giulia Caminito

Giulia Caminito, winner of the 2021 Campiello Prize, a prestigious award that has been presented since 1963, with L’acqua del lago non è mai dolce (Bompiani 2021), “The Water of the Lake is Never Sweet,” in conversation with Professor Clorinda Donato, Director of The Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

In her new book, Giulia Caminito tells the story of an uncomfortable reality, invisible to the majority of contemporary writers, and she pulls no punches. Gaia and her family are living in poverty – white trash, some would call them – in the darkest backwater, with no hope of escape or redemption. But this revelation is not the only driving force behind this novel. Its bold, forthright prose reflects the protagonist’s disturbing, unanswered questions, and lays bare the hypocrisies of an inert and twisted society as if tearing through the canvas of a landscape.

WHERE: Zoom Webinar
WHEN: October 27, 2021 at 1 pm PDT
EVENT LANGUAGE: English

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Giulia Caminito was born in Rome in 1988 and graduated in Political Philosophy. She made her debut with the novel La Grande AThe Big A (Giunti 2016, Bagutta Prize opera prima, Berto Prize and Brancati Youth Prize), followed in 2019 by Un giorno verrà – A day will come (Bompiani, Fiesole Under 40 Prize) and L’acqua del lago non è mai dolce (Bompiani 2021), one of the five finalists of Strega Literary Prize 2021 and Winner of Campiello Literary Prize 2021).

Clorinda Donato directs The Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where she is Professor of French and Italian. She is a scholar of the eighteenth century who studies knowledge transfer through translation, gender in medical and literary accounts, and multilingualism. She is the author of The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England (2020). Her co-edited volume Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 1680–1830 is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.

  • Organized by: IIC Los Angeles
  • In collaboration with: Premio Campiello and he Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies at CSULB