TRANSLATING FERRANTE
Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 6:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco
On the occasion of La Piazza – San Francisco Italian Literary Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco, in collaboration with the cultural association Librai in corso, presents:
Translating Ferrante
with Ann Goldstein
An event hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, featuring Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, in conversation with Michael Subialka.
Presentation in English
Event open to the public | Registration required
ANN GOLDSTEIN
Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante’s books, including the New York Times bestseller The Lying Life of Adults, The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and My Brilliant Friend, named by the New York Times as The Best Book of the Century in 2024. She has also translated books by Donatella di Pietrantonio, Alba De Céspedes, Nadia Terranova, Alessandro Baricco, Italo Calvino, and Primo Levi, among others. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award and Hawthornden Foundation Residency. She lives in New York.
MICHAEL SUBIALKA
Michael Subialka is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at the University of California, Davis. His work focuses on Italian modernism and its global circulation through translation. He is co-editor of the volume Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and co-directs, together with Lisa Sarti, the digital edition of the first complete English translation of Novelle per un anno by Luigi Pirandello (pirandellointranslation.org). He is co-president of the Pirandello Society of America and once again director of California Italian Studies.
Photo credit: E. Tammy Kim