LITERARY TRANSLATIONS
As a literary translator, Giovanni Agnoloni works with Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Swedish.
In 2023 he was awarded as Translator of the Year at the La Quercia del Myr Prize.
Literary translations and co-translations:
– Hermann Simon, Danilo Zatta, “Strategie di pricing” (Hoepli, 2006)
– Masaru Emoto, “Il miracolo dell’acqua” (Il punto d’Incontro, 2007)
– AA.VV., “Tolkien. La Luce e l’Ombra” (edited by Giovanni Agnoloni) (Senzapatria, 2011; later on – 2019 – published in the new, bilingual edition by Kipple Officina Libraria as “Tolkien. Light and Shadow”)
– Jason Berry, “La cassa del vaticano” (Newton Compton, 2012)
– Amir Valle, “Non lasciar mai che ti vedano piangere” (Anordest, 2012, and Verlag Ilion 2018)
– Noble Smith, “La saggezza della Contea” (Sperling & Kupfer, 2012)
– Peter Straub, “Nel cuore oscuro del male” (Anordest, 2013)
– Tania Carver, “The Surrogate” (Anordest, 2013)
– Amir Valle, “Le porte della notte” (Anordest, 2013, and Verlag Ilion, 2018)
– Tare Tereba, “Il gangster. La vera storia di Mickey Cohen, il criminale dei criminali” (Newton Compton, 2013)
– Mike Tyson, “True – La mia storia” (Piemme, 2013)
– Alain Ferdière (with contributions by Armand Desbat, Monique Dondin-Payre and William Van Andringa), “Gallia Lugdunensis”, within the series “Roma e l’Impero” (Mondadori, 2013), published in several volumes attached to the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore” and the magazines “Panorama” and “TV Sorrisi e Canzoni”
– Jorge Mario Bergoglio, “Siate forti nella tenerezza” (Rizzoli, 2014)
– Caroline Moorehead, “Un treno per Auschwitz” (Newton Compton, 2014)
– Felix Weinberg, “Bambino n° 30529” (Newton Compton, 2014)
– Damien Lewis, “Cacciatori di nazisti” (Newton Compton, 2016)
– Gerald Posner, “I banchieri di Dio” (Newton Compton, 2016)
– Kenneth Krabat, “Rosso.Niente.” (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2017)
– Sefy Hendler, “Un mostro grazioso e bello. Bronzino e l’universo burlesco del Nano Morgante” (Maschietto Editore, 2017)
– Christiane Taubira, “La schiavitù spiegata a mia figlia” (Baldini+Castoldi, 2017)
– Joseph Wresinski, “I poveri. Incontro del vero Dio” (Jaca Book, 2017)
– Francesco Ammannati, “Disponibilità di cibo e modelli di consumo alimentare a Firenze e in Toscana nell’Italia unita” (“Food availability and food consumption patterns in Florence and Tuscany in the late 19th century”), article published in the book “Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)
–Sylvie e Noémie D’Esclaibes, “Bambini senza paura con il metodo Montessori. Come crescere curiosi, autonomi e intraprendenti” (Sperling & Kupfer, 2018)
– “Il libro di Shakespeare. Grandi idee spiegate in modo semplice” (Gribaudo – Penguin Random House, 2018)
– Daniela Sacerdoti, “Tienimi accanto a te” (Newton Compton, 2018)
– Nora Mc Keon, “Food governance. Dare autorità alle comunità. Regolamentare le imprese” (Jaca Book, 2019)
– Edmundo Paz Soldán, Gustavo Faverón Patriau (a cura di), “Bolaño selvaggio” (Miraggi Edizioni, 2019)
– Arsène Wenger, “La mia vita in bianco e rosso” (Baldini+Castoldi, 2020)
– Kamala Harris, “Le nostre verità” (La Nave di Teseo, 2021)
– Joe Biden, “Promesse da mantenere – Manifesto per gli anni a venire” (Baldini+Castoldi, 2021)
– Sanja Särman, “Lettere delle piante agli esseri umani” (Ortica Editrice, 2023)
– Amir Valle, “Il santuario delle ombre” (Golem Edizioni, 2023)
– Christian Stannow, “Träbild. Sussurri da Gotland” (Ortica Editrice, 2024)
– Olivier Sorin, “Il segreto di Solveig” (I Libri di Mompracem, 2024)
– Article by Prof. Dorota Karwacka-Pastor (University of Gdansk) Mondo senza Internet. Paura e inquietudine nei romanzi di Giovanni Agnoloni, on no. 2 of 2023 of the journal ContactZone, edited by AISFF (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio della Fantascienza e del fantastico) (published in early 2024).
– Several parts of Lonely Planet tourist guidebooks (for the publishing house EDT), apart from a Rough Guide on Malaysia (for Feltrinelli) and a National Geographic Traveler one on Croatia (for Gruppo AG Edit).
– For the Centro Romantico of the Gabinetto Vieusseux (Florence), translation of some research articles:
Marco Oberti, Le trompe-l’œil de la ségrégation: des inégalités aux discriminations, pubblicato all’interno del volume “Raccontare la periferia 2” (Antologia Vieusseux n. 36 – ed. Polistampa, 2008);
Desmond O’Grady, La Toscana degli australiani e dei neozelandesi;
Iwo Amelung, The reception of the telescope and Western optics in China
– For the publishung house Universitas Studiorum (Mantova), translation of the study:
Raimondo Maria Pavarin, Rischi, consumi e consumatori – Studi e ricerche nell’area metropolitana di Bologna, quindi pubblicato con il titolo Risk, substances and consumers – Studies and surveys in the metropolitan area of Bologna (2015)
– Translation of art catalogues of behalf of several agencies and institutions
Some articles and interviews on his work as a translator (in Italian) are available here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
