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Biography

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Critical perspective

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Bibliography

The Server
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Dreams of Rivers and Seas
The Fighter: Literary Essays
Cleaver
Talking About It
Medici Money
Rapids: A Novel
Judge Savage
A Season with Verona
Hell and Back: Essays
Destiny
Adultery and other Diversions
Translating Style: The English Modernists and their Italian Translations
Europa
An Italian Education
Mimi's Ghost
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Roberto Calasso
The Road to San Giovanni / Italo Calvino
Shear
Italian Neighbours
Sweet Days of Discipline / Fleur Jaeggy
Goodness
Cara Massimina
Family Planning
Home Thoughts
Loving Roger
Tongues of Flame

Awards

2002
William Hill Sports Book of the Year
1997
Booker Prize for Fiction
1993
Italo Calvino Prize
1993
John Florio Prize for Italian Translation
1991
John Florio Prize
1986
Betty Trask Prize
1986
Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
1986
Somerset Maugham Award

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