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Stefano Zangrando

Author

Translator

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Profile

Born: 11.10.1973
Birthplace: Bolzano
Country of birth: Italy
Lives in: Berlin, Mitte


Source language: Italian
Target language: German
Working language: Italian, sometimes German

Vita

Stefano Zangrando was raised in Bolzano, South Tyrol, in an Italian-speaking family. After finishing high school he moved to Trento, where he studied Literature. He came for the first time to Berlin in 2000 as a language student and doing an internship; more stays as a doctoral student and DAAD scholarship recipient were soon to follow. In this time he wrote literary reviews for Italian newspapers and magazines, completed his PhD, and started working as a cultural mediator and translator of German literature. In 2006, he was one of the co-founding members of the International Seminar of Novel Writing at the University of Trento, which he still coordinates today. In 2008, he received a scholarship from the 'Junge Akademie' of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, in 2013 then, he participated in the Internationale Übersetzerwerkstatt at the LCB in Berlin. In 2016 he organised a translation workshop in his native town and became a member of the South Tyrolean Author's Association. He lives, writes, and commutes as a lecturer, translator, and writer between Berlin and the Trentino region in South Tyrol.  

6 Questions

What brought you to Berlin? Love? World politics? Or was it a coincidence?

A coincidence – which, I assume, is just another word for fate.


What do you love about Berlin?

The somewhat unharmonious variety – from the structure of the city to the unpredictability of each and every encounter one makes – and the hazy, laid-back nature.


What do you miss in Berlin?

My son and the fruits and vegetables from my grandparent's garden.


What is your favorite spot in Berlin?

Every corner where the slanting sunshine can touch you unhindered on a late afternoon when the seasons are changing.


Would you say you are a different person in Berlin? A different translator? And if yes, in what way?

Not really. Here I can simply concentrate on myself and my writing, while the time spent back home is usually more of a distraction or marred by non-convenient compromises.


Which existing literary work do you wish you had written?

My own, which so far has been stuck for way too long inside my head. I prefer to re-read my favourite literary works than to regret not having written them myself – quite to the contrary: You can never have enough role models to draw inspiration from.

Awards

2018  Residency scholarship from the TOLEDO Programm, LCB Berlin


2009  German-Italian Translation Prize for the Best Young Translator


2008  Residency scholarship from the Academy of Arts, Berlin


2006  DAAD scholarship for Young Scientists 

Work

Publications in german

Publications in original language

Fratello minore. Sorte, amori e pagine di Peter B.

arkadia, Cagliari, 2018 Romanessay

Mezze misure (ebook)

Zibaldoni, Angri, 2015 Prose

Quando si vive

Keller, Rovereto, 2009 Fiction

Il libro di Egon

Greco & Greco, Milan, 2005 Novel

Amateurs

alpha beta Verlag, Merano, 2016 Novella

(with S. Camilotti) Letteratura e migrazione in Italia. Studi e dialoghi

UniService, Trento, 2010 Literary criticism

Aspetti della teoria del romanzo

Università di Trento, Trento, 2006 Essay

Translated publications

Kurt Lanthaler, Il morto nella roccia

alpha beta Verlag, Meran, 2020 Roman

Ingo Schulze, Peter Holtz. Autoritratto di un uomo felice

Feltrinelli, Mailand, 2019 Roman

Marica Bodrožić, Il tavolo di ciliegio (Kirschholz und alte Gefühle)

Mimesis, Milan, 2017 Novel

Kurt Lanthaler, Il delta (Das Delta)

alpha beta Verlag, Merano, 2015 Novel

Adam Soboczynski, L’arte di non dire la verità (Die schonende Abwehr verliebter Frauen oder Die Kunst der Verstellung)

Feltrinelli, Milan, 2012 Prose

Ingo Schulze - Julia Penndorf, Il signor Agostino (Der Herr Augustin)

artebambini, Bologna, 2011 Children's Book

Ingo Schulze, Adam e Evelyn (Adam und Evelyn)

Feltrinelli, Milan, 2009 Novel

Lydia Mischkulnig, L'intitolazione, in AA.VV., Risentimento

alpha beta Verlag, Meran, 2020 Erzählung

(Mit Giovanna Ianeselli) Waltraud Mittich, Micòl (Micòl)

alpha beta Verlag, Meran, 2017 Roman

Roland Schimmelpfennig, Il drago d'oro

evoè Teatro, Rovereto, 2017 Theaterstück

Ingo Schulze, Noi nella crisi. Chi paga il conto?

ADV, Lugano, 2013 Essays

Adriana Altaras, Gli occhiali di Tito (Titos Brille)

alpha beta Verlag, Merano, 2012 Novel

Ingo Schulze, Arance e angeli. Bozzetti italiani (Orangen und Engel. Italienische Skizzen)

Feltrinelli, Milan, 2011 Fiction

Ingo Schulze, Bolero berlinese (Handy)

Feltrinelli, Milan, 2008 Fiction

Editorship

Ingo Schulze, L’utopia ferita

Il margine, Trento, 2016 Essays

(with M. Rizzante and W. Nardon), La poesia della prosa

Università di Trento, Trento, 2011 Literary criticism

Ingo Schulze, L’angelo, le arance e il polipo

Nazione indiana, Aversa, 2010 Fiction

(with M. Rizzante and W. Nardon), La scoperta del romanzo

Metauro, Pesaro, 2005 Essays

filadrëssa. Kontexte der Sudtiroler Literatur 09

Edition Raetia, Bolzano, 2013 Literary journal 

(with M. Rizzante and W. Nardon), Al di là del genere

Università di Trento, Trento, 2010 Literary criticism

(with M. Rizzante and W. Nardon), Finzione e documento nel romanzo

Università di Trento, Trento, 2008 Literary criticism