Monica Pavani

Monica Pavani lives in Ferrara (Italy). Besides writing poetry (in her latest published collection, Luce ritirata/Light Withdrawn, which won the Senigallia first prize in 2005, the French sculptor Camille Claudel speaks in the first person), she has been working for many years as a translator from English and French into Italian. Among her most recent translations: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (La sovrana lettrice, Adelphi 2007), Mouvement par la fin by Philippe Rahmy (Movimento dalla fine, Mobydick 2008) and Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Adone, Marsilio 2014). Her book about the Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani, L’eco di Micòl. Itinerario bassaniano (The Echo of Micòl. A Walk through the Writings of Giorgio Bassani) was published in a bilingual version by 2G Editrice in Ferrara in 2011. She has just translated the poem Parisina by Lord Byron, which is in course of publication for 2G Editrice.

In 2012 she earned a PhD degree in Anglo-American Literature at Ca’ Foscari in Venice, with a dissertation on Anne Michaels’, Sujata Bhatt’s and Adrienne Rich’s poems on German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.