Martin McLaughlin
Novecento in Saggio
Best Published Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Panel 3 Judge
Martin McLaughlin is Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College.
McLaughlin is the author of Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (OUP, 1995), a monograph on Italo Calvino (Edinburgh UP, 1998), and has co-edited a number of volumes, most recently Sinergie narrative. Cinema e lettteratura nell’Italia contemporanea Pellegrini (Cesati, 2008), Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico (Legenda, 2010), and Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures (Legenda, 2011). He has been Italian Editor and Senior Editor of Modern Language Review, Chairman of Legenda 2002-2009, and Chair of the Society for Italian Studies from 2004 to 2010. He has translated Italo Calvino’s Why Read the Classics? (Cape, 1999), Hermit in Paris (Cape, 2003), and Into the War (Penguin, 2011), Umberto Eco’s On Literature (Secker & Warburg, 2005), and co-translated and edited Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics (Penguin, 2009).
