Voices from a Time

Silvia Bonucci

2003

I have no memory of that train trip, probably because there was nothing to remember. Our arrival in Vienna, on the other hand, impressed me. That city reminded me somewhat of Trieste, with its wide streets, its middle-European buildings, and I was happy to find my native language—with a different inflection, however, not as singsong and less…

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Silvia Bonucci

b. 1964

Author and translator Silvia Bonucci was born in Monza, Italy. She studied languages and literature at the Sorbonne and since 1988 has worked in Rome as a translator, mainly for the cinema and art world. Bonucci was one of the founders of a protest group against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government in 2002. Bonucci won the Premio Regium Julii and the Premio Zerilli Marimò in 2003.

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