Domenico Scarpa
Novecento in Saggio | Harvard 2015 Edition
Early Career Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Previous Winners Panel Judge
Domenico Scarpa (b. Salerno, 1965) is a literary critic and translator. He has worked as a consultant for the Primo Levi Studies Center since its foundation. In October 2014, he gave the annual Primo Levi Lecture along with Ann Goldstein, entitled In un’altra lingua / In Another Language, which is to be published in a bilingual edition by Einaudi in May 2015. Scarpa is collaborating with Goldstein on an edition of Primo Levi’s Complete Works, which is scheduled to be published by Liveright (W.W. Norton), New York, in the autumn of 2015. Along with Fabio Levi, he edited Primo Levi, Così fu Auschwitz. Testimonianze 1945-1986, published by Einaudi in January 2015. His edition of the correspondence between Carlo Emilio Gadda and Goffredo Parise is to be published by Adelphi in June 2015.
Scarpa earned doctoral degrees from the universities of Trento and the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III. He taught at the Universities of Napoli-L’Orientale and Milano-Bicocca as well as Middlebury College (Vermont). He worked as an appointed three-year Researcher in Contemporary Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale di Pisa from 2007 to 2010. He won a Fellowship at the Italian Academy of Columbia University (New York) in the Spring semester, 2013, to conduct a research project on Eugenio Montale. His Uno. Doppio ritratto di Franco Lucentini (:duepunti, Palermo 2011) was the Overall Winner in the Gadda Prize Novecento in Saggio for 2012.
Scarpa’s Italo Calvino was published by Bruno Mondadori in 1999. He edited books by Berto, Breton, Calvino, Fruttero & Lucentini, Natalia Ginzburg, Franco Lucentini, Mastronardi, Rea, Goliarda Sapienza, Soldati and Stevenson. He translated texts by W.H. Auden, Willa Cather, Jonathan Coe, Philippe Forest, Cathleen Schine and George Steiner. He is currently editing the two volumes of the Meridiani series of Fruttero & Lucentini’s Opere di bottega, which will be published by Mondadori. He wrote Pour un portrait de la tribu (Paris, 2010) about Natalia Ginzburg and edits her works for Einaudi. In 2006-2012 Scarpa edited Dal Romanticismo a oggi, the third volume of the Atlante della letteratura italiana, directed by Sergio Luzzatto and Gabriele Pedullà (Einaudi). In 2010 Scarpa published a long collection of essays entitled Storie avventurose di libri necessari (Gaffi) and a short dramatic reading, Il segno del chimico. Dialogo con Primo Levi (Einaudi), which was put on stage by Valter Malosti in Italy and John Turturro in New York. He writes for the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
