Richard Dixon (translator)

Richard Dixon is an English translator of Italian literature. He translated the last works of Umberto Eco, including his novels The Prague Cemetery, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, and Numero Zero, commended by the judges of the John Florio Prize, 2016. He has also translated works by Giacomo Leopardi, Roberto Calasso and Antonio Moresco.

Richard Dixon was born in Coventry, in 1956. He was educated at King Henry VIII School and Lanchester Polytechnic, where he graduated in Business Law. He practised as a barrister in London for ten years before moving to Italy in 1989, where he now lives.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, 2011: shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2012
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco, 2012
Zibaldone di Pensieri by Giacomo Leopardi (with other translators), 2013
The Combover by Adrián N. Bravi, 2013
Author’s revisions to The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 2014
Ardor by Roberto Calasso, 2014
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso, 2015
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco, 2015: John Florio Prize, 2016: Commended translation
Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata, 2016^[4]
Distant Light by Antonio Moresco, 2016: shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association Italian Prose in Translation Award, 2017,^[5] shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2018^[6]
The Experience of Pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda, 2017
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco, 2017
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, 2018
The Javelin Thrower by Paolo Volponi, 2019^[7]
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso, 2019^[8]
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s Decision and the Fate of Rome by Luca Fezzi, 2019^[9]
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso, 2020^[10]
The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, 2020^[11]
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco (with co-translator Alastair McEwen), 2020^[12]
Valse Triste by Marcello Fois, 2021^[13]
The Book of Nonexistent Words by Stefano Massini, 2021^[14]
South 1982 by Adrián N. Bravi, 2022^[15]
Clandestinity by Antonio Moresco, 2022^[16]
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness by Emanuele Coccia, 2024^[17]
The World Machine by Paolo Volponi, 2024^[18]

He has also translated contemporary Italian poets,^[19] including Franco Buffoni^[20]^[21] and Eugenio De Signoribus^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]

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"You searched for Richard Dixon".
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"Richard Dixon | Translator". www.write.it. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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"Richard Dixon - the Society of Authors". 6 November 2023.
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"Dante — Marco Santagata". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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rcldaum (21 August 2017). "IPTA 2017 Shortlist: Distant Light". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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Awards, Dublin Literary. "The 2018 shortlist is announced, 5th April – DUBLIN Literary Award". Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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The Javelin Thrower. The Italian List. Seagull Books.
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"The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon – review", Kirkus Reviews, 19 December 2019.
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"Crossing the Rubicon by Luca Fezzi".
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"The Celestial Hunter by Robert Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon - review", The Spectator, 25 April 2020.
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"The Lehman Trilogy". HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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"How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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Fois, Marcello (14 April 2020). Valse Triste. MacLehose Press. ISBN 9780857058843.
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"The Book of Nonexistent Words". HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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https://www.jetstonepublishers.com/splash_20th-century.html. ISBN 9781910858233
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781646051724. ISBN 978-1-64605-172-4
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Philosophy of the Home. 18 April 2024.
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"The World Machine".
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Nineteen poets in Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, pp. 81-85, ed. Franco Buffoni, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0
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Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature, (Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014) pp. 189–203; ed. Pietro Montorfani ISBN 1-892021-53-6
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Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–43, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0
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Nuovi Argomenti, August 2013
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The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. VIII no. 2, fall 2013, pp.11 - 21
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Almost Island, Issue no. 11, December 2014
[25]
The World Poetry Review, Issue 9, 2024 - https://worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/13/four-poems-by-eugenio-de-signoribus/

Umberto Eco in conversation with Richard Dixon (in Italian) at the Italian Cultural Institute London - 25 February 2012 1 2 3
Birmingham University Zibaldone Project
Description of Distant Light by Antonio Moresco at Archipelago Books
Official website of Richard Dixon

[1] [1]
"You searched for Richard Dixon".

[2] [2]
"Richard Dixon | Translator". www.write.it. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[3] [3]
"Richard Dixon - the Society of Authors". 6 November 2023.

[4] [4]
"Dante — Marco Santagata". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[5] [5]
rcldaum (21 August 2017). "IPTA 2017 Shortlist: Distant Light". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[6] [6]
Awards, Dublin Literary. "The 2018 shortlist is announced, 5th April – DUBLIN Literary Award". Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[7] [7]
The Javelin Thrower. The Italian List. Seagull Books.

[8] [8]
"The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon – review", Kirkus Reviews, 19 December 2019.

[9] [9]
"Crossing the Rubicon by Luca Fezzi".

[10] [10]
"The Celestial Hunter by Robert Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon - review", The Spectator, 25 April 2020.

[11] [11]
"The Lehman Trilogy". HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[12] [12]
"How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[13] [13]
Fois, Marcello (14 April 2020). Valse Triste. MacLehose Press. ISBN 9780857058843.

[14] [14]
"The Book of Nonexistent Words". HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[15] [15]
https://www.jetstonepublishers.com/splash_20th-century.html. ISBN 9781910858233

[16] [16]
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781646051724. ISBN 978-1-64605-172-4

[17] [17]
Philosophy of the Home. 18 April 2024.

[18] [18]
"The World Machine".

[19] [19]
Nineteen poets in Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, pp. 81-85, ed. Franco Buffoni, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0

[20] [20]
Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature, (Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014) pp. 189–203; ed. Pietro Montorfani ISBN 1-892021-53-6

[21] [21]
Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–43, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0

[22] [22]
Nuovi Argomenti, August 2013

[23] [23]
The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. VIII no. 2, fall 2013, pp.11 - 21

[24] [24]
Almost Island, Issue no. 11, December 2014

[25] [25]
The World Poetry Review, Issue 9, 2024 - https://worldpoetryreview.org/2024/03/13/four-poems-by-eugenio-de-signoribus/

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Richard Dixon (translator)

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