Visible Cities - Lockdown to liberation, stress to sustainability: Aotearoa fiction inspired by Italo Calvino
Editors:
Marco Sonzogni & Sydney Shep
Publisher:
The Cuba Press
ISBN:
9781988595740
Date published:
29 September 2023
Pages:
158
Format:
Paperback
RRP:
$30.00
The celebrated Italian writer Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities explored the intersection of reality and imagination over 11 wondrous chapters. A hundred years after his birth 11 emerging writers from Aotearoa have each taken a city from their own country and written a short story that pays tribute to Calvino and addresses the bigger themes that shape their city in the twenty-first century.
About the editors:
Marco Sonzogni is a reader in translation studies and intercultural communication at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. A widely published scholar, he is also an award-winning translator, poet, editor and cultural activist.
Sydney Shep is a reader in book history and the printer at Wai-te-ata Press, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. A widely published scholar, she is also a practising letterpress printer, exhibiting book artist and designer bookbinder.
