Livia Manera Sambuy
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Livia Manera Sambuy is an Italian cultural journalist, documentary filmmaker and author of narrative nonfiction books. A staff writer at the Italian national newspaper Corriere della Sera, she writes about English language fiction and nonfiction.
Career
In the 1980s and 1990s, Manera wrote about culture for the Italian weekly newsmagazines Panorama, L’Espresso and Liberal, and for the literary supplements of the national daily newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa. In 1986 she translated Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love for the Italian publisher Garzanti. [1] For many years she also worked in publishing, first as Publicity Director at Giulio Einaudi Editore in Turin (1990-1991), and later literary scout for the Rizzoli RCS publishing group (Rizzoli, Bompiani, Marsilio, Archinto, Bur etc.), until 2008. Since the year 2000 she has been a staff writer at the leading Italian national newspaper Corriere della Sera, writing book reviews and profiles of writers -- among which Julian Barnes, Vikram Chandra, E.L. Doctorow, Richard Ford, Paula Fox, Mavis Gallant, Ian McEwan, c Joseph Mitchell, Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth, Arundhati Roy, Tom Stoppard, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, and many others.[2] [3]
She also published feature articles on the International Herald Tribune, The Believer[1], The Paris Review[4] , The New Yorker[5], El Pais[6]
A close friend of Philip Roth's, she worked with him on two documentary films: Philip Roth sans complexe, that she wrote for the French/German cultural channel ARTE (2011); and Philip Roth Unmasked, that she wrote, and co-directed with William Karel for PBS series “American Masters” (Thirteen, 2013).[7][8] In 2015 she published Non scrivere di me (Feltrinelli), a memoir and a book of profiles of North American writers that won the Premio Università di Camerino in 2016.[9] Her narrative nonfiction book Il segreto di Amrit Kaur (In Search of Amrit Kaur) was published in Italy by Feltrinelli in 2022, in the UK and India in 2023 (Chatto & Windus; Penguin India), and the same year in the US by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Il segreto di Amrit Kaur won the 2023 Capalbio Piazza Magenta International Award.[10] Based in Paris and in Tuscany, she has served on the board of advisors of the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Donnini (Florence) from 2002 to 2015, and on the jury of the foundation's Gregor von Rezzori International Prize, chaired by Beatrice Monti della Corte Rezzori, from 2007 to 2012.[11]
She is currently on the Board of Advisors of the American Library in Paris.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "You'll Never Write About Me Again". The Believer. January 1, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
- ↑ svizzera, RSI Radiotelevisione. "Livia Manera Sambuy". rsi. Retrieved Jul 29, 2023.
- ↑ "Livia Manera Sambuy". Corriere della Sera. July 26, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
- ↑ Sambuy, Livia Manera (March 14, 2014). ""I've Lived Very Freely"". Retrieved Jul 29, 2023.
- ↑ "Au Revoir, Village Voice Bookshop!". The New Yorker.
- ↑ "Entrevista a Kurt Vonnegut". Retrieved July 29, 2023.
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- ↑ Scott, A.O. (March 12, 2013). "Looking Past the Alter Egos to the Novelist". The New York Times.
- ↑ Censi, Gabriele (Sep 25, 2016). "Michela Murgia vince il premio "Maria Teresa Di Lascia"". Cronache Maceratesi. Retrieved Jul 29, 2023.
- ↑ "XII Premio internazionale Capalbio Piazza Magenta: ecco i vincitori dell'edizione 2023". Grosseto Notizie. July 27, 2023. Retrieved Jul 29, 2023.
- ↑ "I finalisti della III edizione del Premio Vallombrosa Von Rezzori". Davis & Co. May 19, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
- ↑ "Governance". American Library in Paris. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
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