Progetto Babele
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Progetto Babele is a literary magazine founded in 2002 by Marco Roberto Capelli. The magazine can be bought in paper format or downloaded for free as a PDF file through the site with the same name. Nowadays 19 numbers of the regular issue and 6 "special issues" have been published, for a total of over 2'000 pages.
Progetto Babele's principal goals are: the presentation of works of new authors, articles of literature, interviews and special features on well-known writers. A number of writers have been hosted so far, among which are Corrado Augias, Valerio Evangelisti, Michael Hoeye, Fernando Sorrentino,Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, Francesco Guccini, Tullio Avoledo, Nanni Balestrini, Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Two particularly interesting sections are Traducendo Traducendo (Translating Translating), which often introduces renowned foreign authors still unpublished or of little fame in Italy, and Riscoperte (Rediscoveries), a section of facts and people of some relevance forgotten in Italian literature and music, whose responsible is Carlo Santulli.
Some sections of Progetto Babele website are also in English, French and Spanish.
