Stephen Sartarelli

Stephen Sartarelli (born 1954 in Youngstown, Ohio) is a poet and translator.

Life

Sartarelli graduated from Antioch College and New York University.^[1] He has translated the popular Inspector Montalbano series of detective novels written by the Italian writer Andrea Camilleri.^[2]

Sartarelli lives in France.

Awards

• 2001 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets for Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba.

Works

Poetry

• "Annus Sanctus". Titanic Operas. 
• "Lament for the Bamiyan Buddhas". Titanic Operas. 
• "Openings, Endings". Titanic Operas. 

• The Open Vault. Spuyten Duyvil. 2001. ISBN 978-1-881471-52-3. 
• The Runaway Woods. Spuyten Duyvil. 2000. ISBN 978-1-881471-45-5. 
• Grievances and Other Poems. Gnosis Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-922792-04-7. 

Essays

• "Where Did Our Love Go?". The Nation. December 24, 2003. 

Translations

Poetry

• Nanni Cagnone, The Book of Giving Back (Edgewise Press, 1997),
• Umberto Saba (1998). Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN 978-1-878818-52-2. 

Prose

• Prince of the Clouds, by Gianni Riotta (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000).
• The Plague-Sower, by Gesualdo Bufalino (1988).
• The House on Moon Lake, by Francesca Duranti (1985).
• Andrea Camilleri (2007). The Patience of the Spider. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-311203-7. 
• Andrea Camilleri (2002). The Shape of Water. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03092-7. 
• Roberto Calasso (1994). The Ruin of Kasch. Translator William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-78026-2. 
• Laurent Gaudé (2008). The House of Scorta. Translator Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-66357-1. 
• Giacomo Casanova (2001). The Story of My Life. Translator Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes. Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-043915-1. 

References