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Ottavio Fatica


Born
Perugia, Italy

Ottavio Fatica è uno dei più stimati e considerati traduttori italiani. Ha insegnato la pratica del tradurre a numerosi talenti. Fra le sue traduzioni più importanti, spiccano Moby-Dick di Melville, i Diari di Byron, i Taccuini di Henry James, carteggio di Elizabeth Bishop-Robert Lowell, Magia di W.B Yeats, e un gran numero di opere di Kipling, e poi Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Joyce, Lafcadio Hearn e tanti altri.
Vincitore, nel 1994, del Premio Mondello per la traduzione di Limericks di Edward Lear e del Premio Monselice (2007) per La Città della tremenda notte di Kipling.
Fra i poeti ha tradotto i Limericks di Edward Lear, Elizabeth Bishop, Nina Cassian, W. H. Auden. Ha portando a termine la nuova traduzione della trilogia del Signore degli Anel ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 10,717 ratings · 1,222 reviews · 84 distinct works • Similar authors
La compagnia dell'anello
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4.41 avg rating — 3,144,612 ratings — published 1954 — 142 editions
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Le due torri (Il Signore de...
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4.50 avg rating — 1,122,781 ratings — published 1954 — 130 editions
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Il Ritorno del Re (Il Signo...
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4.58 avg rating — 1,038,762 ratings — published 1955 — 93 editions
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Il Signore degli Anelli
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4.54 avg rating — 730,088 ratings — published 1959 — 152 editions
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Moby-Dick
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3.57 avg rating — 615,233 ratings — published 1851 — 7730 editions
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Lost in Translation
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Vicino alla dimora del serp...
3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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Le omissioni
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Il palinsesto del cervello ...
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I narrabondi: Scrittori ecc...
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