Translator Stefania Heim with Deborah Woodard

Third Place Books welcomes poet and translator Stefania Heim to our Ravenna store for a discussion of her translation of Mr. Dudron by Giorgio de Chirico. She will be joined in conversation by poet and translator Deborah Woodard. This event is free and open to the public.

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The painter's unpublished novel, an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical hero—a painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories. Translated from Italian for the first time into English.

Stefania Heim received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on Giorgio de Chirico. A founding editor of Circumference: Poetry in Translation, she is the author of the poetry collections Hour Book and A Table that Goes On for Miles. She lives in Washington.

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was born in Greece to Italian parents. A gifted and prolific painter, de Chirico is considered the founder of the metaphysical school of art and a significant influence on the surrealists. Over the course of his long career, he was involved with many of the twentieth century’s major art-world figures: he designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and set productions for Luigi Pirandello; he was photographed by Irving Penn. De Chirico was also a prolific writer. His French writing has been translated by John Ashbery, Louise Bourgeois, and others. Geometry of Shadows, a selection of de Chirico's Italian poems presented for the first time in English, is also published by A Public Space Books.

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