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In-Person | International Literature Festival Dublin
In-Person | International Literature Festival Dublin
Translated by Sophie Hughes, Perfection is Vincenzo Latronico’s fourth novel. He joins ILFD to discuss the art of fiction, and why writing is about breaking things in order to put them back together again. Vincenzo Latronico is an art critic who has also translated George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hanif Kureishi into Italian. He contributes to frieze, Corriere della Sera and La Stampa and Internazionale.| International Literature Festival Dublin
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