IHT: Traveling through a writers' America
Fernanda Pivano, the Italian writer and translator best known for being arrested after translating Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, here recalls her first trip to the United States and the writers she met. Read a profile/biography of Pivano here. Pivano later became the translator, friend and champion to Allen Ginsburg and the Beat Poets. She has spent her life championing American literature in Italy and her books and papers can be found at the Biblioteca Pivano in Milan. Visit her official website.
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