Matilda Colarossi grew up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She attended the universities of Windsor and Toronto earning an Honours BA in Drama and Italian Literature. In 1983, she moved to Florence, Italy. In 2001 she attended the Protr@d Translation course in Florence under the direction of Magda Olivetti and spent the next 15 years translating mostly academic and commercial texts. In 2014 she started her blog, paralleltexts, and has since also been translating literature.
Books (in translation):
Discovering the stars, Ianieri Edizioni, Silvi Marina, Teramo, 2022
The Water War, Ianieri Edizioni, Silvi Marina, Teramo, 2022
Bessarion and music Concepts, theoretical sources and styles, Edizioni Fondazione Levi, Venice, 2021
Reflecting on Hornbostel-Sachs’s Versuch, edited by Cristina Ghirardini, Edizioni Fondazione Levi, Venice, 2020
Leonardo da Vinci, Fables and legends, by Leonardo da Vinci, MutatuM Publishing, London (2018) Interview: https://www.wordsandpics.org/2019/09/translation-mati-colarossi.html?m=1
Fiamma by Dana Neri, MutatuM Publishing, London (2018) Interview with the author: https://csidewriter.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/c-incontri-le-interviste-dana-neri/
Lettere ai maestri, by Daniele Rossi, Stabilimento Pol. Fiorentino, Florence (2017) Interview with the author: http://www.danielerossi.it/neweb/lettere_e_maestri.html
In movimento by Enrico Bianda, Stanza 251 (2013)
Forthcoming: Excluded by Luigi Pirandello, Noumena Press
- Pirandello, Luigi, “Lucky to be a horse”, from Novelle per un anno: Asymptote Journal 2023
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Deledda, Grazia. “Macchiette“, Versi dal 1887-1900: AALITRA, 2021
- Ferreri, Silvia. La madre di Eva/ Eva’s mother, excerpt: Anomaly #32 2021
- Lo Brano, Marta. “Poesie”, Mie insondabili tutte: AzonaL, 2020
- Mujčić, Elvira. Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato/ On how to be a good immigrant, excerpt: Asymptote 2020
- Tapparelli, Filippo. L’Inverno di Giona/ Giona’s winter, excerpt on NewBooksInItaly (Ministero degli Affari Esteri)
- Deledda, Grazia. “On the mountain”, Versi dal 1887-1900: Asymptote, 2020.
- Deledda, Grazia. “Ancient Musical legend“, Leggende Sarde: Finalist Gabo Prize, LunchTicket Org., 2019
- De Luca, Erri. “Poesie”, solo andata: Asymptote Journal, 2019
- Ferreri, Silvia. La madre di Eva/Eva’s mother, excerpt: Asymptote, October 2018
- Zardi, Paolo. “Future perfect”, Il giorno che diventammo umani : Asymptote, January, 2018
- Zardi, Paolo. XXI Secolo/21st mo ml century, excerpt: Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring edition, 2018
- Paolin, Demetrio. Conforme alla gloria/In conformance with glory, excerpt: Ilanot Review, July, 2017
- De Luca, Erri. “Poesie”, solo andata: Sakura Review, July, 2017
- Amato, Roberto: 48th Poetry International, May, 2017
- Amato, Roberto: International Festival Rotterdam, May, 2017
- Basso, Susanna. Sul tradurre/On translation, excerpt: Asymptote, April, 2017
- Cinquegrani, Alessandro. Cacciatori di frodo/Poachers, excerpt: Asymptote, July, 2016
- Amato, Roberto: Poetry International, May, 2016.
- Zardi, Paolo. “L’ultima sigaretta”, Il giorno che diventammo umani: Lunch Ticket Org., March, 2016
- Zardi, Paolo. “Six minutes”, Antropometria: Lunch Ticket Org., January, 2016.
Short stories (original Italian and English):
- Snapshots: https://paralleltexts.blog/category/snapshots/
- Partenze, racconti, Associazione Culturale Small Room (2016)
- Stanza 251: http://stanza251.blogspot.com/search/label/Matilde%20Colarossi
- Edizioni Mimosa, (weekly magazine)
A selection of articles and papers (translation/revision), interviews:
- Commare, Giovanni, “The Italian Sonnet in the 20th century: Death and Resurrection”, (2022).
- Pisani, Francesco, “The town of Collodi: the vernacular heritage”, (2022).
- Ghetti, Noemi. “Between Russia and Italy, from Bogdanov to Gramsci, the cultural path towards revolution), (2021).
- Further Addenda for the (2011) Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs classification
of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium and the (2017) Addenda to the
MIMO Hornbostel-Sachs Classification by the CIMCIM Working Group on
Classification. - Ghetti, Noemi. Kaspar Hauser: Musikdrama, (2020).
- “Missing gems of world lit: Fuori fuoco by Chiara Carminati, A Fuse 8 Production (2020): http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2020/01/22/guest-post-what-were-missing-gems-of-world-kid-lit/
- Venerucci, Francesco. “Scanderbeg”, (2019).
- Documentary: Centro PEN della Sardegna – Documentario “un’odissea ‘e rimas nobas”, 2019.
- Ghetti, Noemi. “Leonardo da Vinci: the figuration of invisible things”, (2019).
- Words and pictures, Julie Sullivan interviews Mati Colarossi, The SCBWI British Isles Online Magazine (2019);
- Los Angeles Review of Books, Matilda Colarossi interviews Lindsay Wong author of The woo-woo, China Channel (2019)
- Ghetti, Noemi, “Gramsci in the blind prison of the heretics”, (2018). https://snuproject.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/gramsci-nel-cieco-carcere-degli-eretici-gramsci-in-the-blind-prison-of-the-heretics-by-noemi-ghetti/
- Review: Cedi la strada agli alberi by Franco Arminio, L’Indice (2017);
- Un posto di vacanza;
- Intralingo (2017);
- Farneti, Fausta, “Quadraturism in Pontremoli: clients and artists”, Università di Firenze, (2017).
- Colarossi, Matilda. “Once upon a time in Mugello”, OKMugello Magazine (https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16999/ti-racconto-la-mezzadria-gli-anni-30-e-40-a-borgo – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16979/i-bambini-nel-mugello-degli-anni-30-un-racconto – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16989/le-ragazze-negli-anni-venti-in-mugello-vita-e-storie – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16991/mugello-le-avventure-di-un-veterinario-prima-e-dopo-la-guerra – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16986/il-mugello-sui-pedali-storia-di-una-normale-vita-avventurosa – https://www.okmugello.it/rubriche/16983/barberino-tagliaferro-il-viaggio-e-la-vita-di-una-sposa )
- Pasquini, Matteo, “Integrated mapping systems for buried architecture” Università di Firenze, (2012)
- Lischi, Sandra, “In search of expanded cinema”, Cinema&Cie’ 2003
Photo: school trip in Venice with students; me lost…