Lit in Translation

Nadia Terranova

Born 1978 · Italy

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Strega 2025 · Shortlist

    Quello che so di te

    Title translated by AI:“What I Know About You”

    Nadia Terranova · 47 when first published

    Novel · 261 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Holding her newborn daughter, a woman knows she can never allow herself to go mad. Madness in her family has a name, her great-grandmother Venera, who was once committed to the asylum in Messina.

  • In English

    Strega 2019 · Shortlist

    Farewell, Ghosts

    Addio fantasmi

    Nadia Terranova · 40 when first published

    Novel · 224 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:A woman returns to her childhood home in Messina, which her mother is selling, and is confronted with the memory of her father, who disappeared years ago and whose body was never found.