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Author: Brianna Di Monda and Stiliana Milkova

Brianna Di Monda is a contributing editor for Cleveland Review of Books. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review of Books, and Worms Magazine.  Stiliana Milkova is a Bulgarian-born literary critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College. She has translated from Italian works by Adriana Cavarero, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco, and others. She is the author of Elena Ferrante as World Literature and of many scholarly articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literatures. She edits the online journal Reading in Translation.
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04/04/2022

Elena Ferrante and Feminine Creativity

An interview with Stiliana Milkova about Elena Ferrante, acts of translation, and leaky bodies

by Brianna Di Monda and Stiliana Milkova

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