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- ISBN 9781908276346
- Dimensions: 17 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2014
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
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Born in Durres Albania Elvira Dones is a novelist screenwriter and documentary film-maker currently based in the US. After seven novels in Albanian she wrote the two most recent in Italian her adopted language: Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin 2007) and Piccola guerra perfetta (Small Perfect War 2010) about the Kosovo war. In her prize-winning documentary on the phenomenon of 'sworn virgins' in Albania Dones interviews twelve survivors of the tradition one of whom has recently emigrated to the US like Hana in the novel. A film of the book is due out in 2014. Clarissa Botsford studied Italian at Cambridge and Comparative Education in London before moving to Rome Italy. She has worked in the fields of teaching intercultural education and publishing and is also a musician. She currently teaches English and Translation Studies at Rome University and translates contemporary Italian fiction and poetry.
