Liz Wren-Owens is Reader in Italian Studies and Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University. She previously taught at the Universities of Warwick, Bath and Bristol. She has published on impegno and the engaged intellectual, migration to and from Italy, the Italian diaspora in Wales and Scotland, Italian empire and Italian detective fiction.

«Building on an impressive list of critical readings and interviews, Wren-Owens uses the lens of translation to offer a precise and evocative study of Tabucchi’s works. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars of both literature and translation.» (Professor Rita Wilson, Monash University)«This book maps the complex relationship between Antonio Tabucchi’s literary production and processes of translation. Following the links between Tabucchi as an author, his translators and his readers, Wren-Owens tells an intricate as well as illuminating tale about one of the most important figures in contemporary European literature and how his voice travelled across languages and cultures.» (Professor Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University)

• CONTENTS: Travelling texts: Mapping global translations of Tabucchi – Tabucchi in the English and French canons – Translation in Tabucchi’s works – Translation as process and as mediation: A comparative study of translating fascist memory in Lisbon, in Tabucchi’s Pereira and in Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon – The translator’s perspective.

Liz Wren-Owens is Reader in Italian Studies and Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University. She previously taught at the Universities of Warwick, Bath and Bristol. She has published on impegno and the engaged intellectual, migration to and from Italy, the Italian diaspora in Wales and Scotland, Italian empire and Italian detective fiction.

«Building on an impressive list of critical readings and interviews, Wren-Owens uses the lens of translation to offer a precise and evocative study of Tabucchi’s works. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars of both literature and translation.» (Professor Rita Wilson, Monash University)«This book maps the complex relationship between Antonio Tabucchi’s literary production and processes of translation. Following the links between Tabucchi as an author, his translators and his readers, Wren-Owens tells an intricate as well as illuminating tale about one of the most important figures in contemporary European literature and how his voice travelled across languages and cultures.» (Professor Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University)

• CONTENTS: Travelling texts: Mapping global translations of Tabucchi – Tabucchi in the English and French canons – Translation in Tabucchi’s works – Translation as process and as mediation: A comparative study of translating fascist memory in Lisbon, in Tabucchi’s Pereira and in Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon – The translator’s perspective.

Liz Wren-Owens is Reader in Italian Studies and Translation Studies at the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University. She previously taught at the Universities of Warwick, Bath and Bristol. She has published on impegno and the engaged intellectual, migration to and from Italy, the Italian diaspora in Wales and Scotland, Italian empire and Italian detective fiction.

«Building on an impressive list of critical readings and interviews, Wren-Owens uses the lens of translation to offer a precise and evocative study of Tabucchi’s works. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars of both literature and translation.» (Professor Rita Wilson, Monash University)«This book maps the complex relationship between Antonio Tabucchi’s literary production and processes of translation. Following the links between Tabucchi as an author, his translators and his readers, Wren-Owens tells an intricate as well as illuminating tale about one of the most important figures in contemporary European literature and how his voice travelled across languages and cultures.» (Professor Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University)

• CONTENTS: Travelling texts: Mapping global translations of Tabucchi – Tabucchi in the English and French canons – Translation in Tabucchi’s works – Translation as process and as mediation: A comparative study of translating fascist memory in Lisbon, in Tabucchi’s Pereira and in Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon – The translator’s perspective.