Mariano Massimo Bocchiola

Tenured teacher

Department of Humanities
Faculty of Interpreting and translation

Contacts

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Individual tutorial

Timetable

Individual tutorials will be held by appointment to be arranged in advance by e-mail.

Curriculum Vitae

He was born and lives in Pavia, where he graduated in Romance Philology with Cesare Segre. After teaching literature in schools for a few years, he devoted himself mainly to translation from English for publishing. Since then, he has translated about eighty works - mainly fiction, but also non-fiction and poetry - by numerous authors, including Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Beckett, F. S. Fitzgerald, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Joseph O'Connor, Irvine Welsh, Charles Bukowski, Tim Parks; and among the poets Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Reznikoff, Simon Armitage, Blake Morrison and Bukowski and Auster. For his work, in 2000 he received the National Prize for Translation from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
He has published three books of verses: Al ballo della clinica (Marcos y Marcos, 1997), Le radici nell'aria (Guanda, 2004) and Mortalissima parte (Guanda, 2007). His texts have been translated into English, French and Spanish (from Argentina).
He worked with the Roman historian Marco Sartori on the writing of two historical essays: Teutoburg, 9 A.D. (Rizzoli, 2005) and Canne - Description of a battle (Mondadori, 2008).
He teaches Literary Translation at the University of Pavia and at the Master of Publishing set up by the Collegio Santa Caterina da Siena in collaboration with the same university; and Rhetoric and Literary Composition at the IULM in Milan.

Main areas of scientific interest
Theory and practice of literary translation. Literary criticism.

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Publications

Traduzione dall’inglese di un centinaio di libri di poesia e narrativa per molte case editrici (tra le quali Adelphi, Einaudi, Mondadori, Rizzoli). Fra gli autori M. Amis, Auster, DeLillo, Beckett, Kerouac, Kipling, Pynchon, Stenibeck.

Collaborazioni a quotidani, riviste, convegni (1984-2011): Autografo, Strumenti Critici, Humanitas, Idra, Poesia, Testo a Fronte, Le Nostre Ragioni, Atelier, Nuovi Argomenti, Il Corriere della Sera, Carnet, Acoma, Poeti e Poesia, Po&sie. Contributi agli atti del Convegno Tradurre è tradire un’intenzione, promosso dall’Univ. di Cagliari, 2006 (in corso di pubbl.); e al II vol. delle Giornate della Traduzione Letteraria, promosso dall’Univ. di Urbino, 2010.

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Teaching

COURSES 2022/2023

Master's Degree in Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting

Writing techniques, genres and testuality

COURSES 2021/2022

Master's Degree in Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting (Curriculum: Specialist Translation)

Information technology for translation

Writing techniques, genres and testuality

COURSES 2020/2021

Master's Degree Course in Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting (Curriculum: Specialist Translation)

Writing techniques, genres and testuality

COURSES 2019/2020