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Poems by Anna Jackson
Translated by M. R.Sottocorona and Marco Sonzogni
I traduttori desiderano ringraziare Bob Lowe e Davide Manenti
per i preziosi consigli.
Marco Mohamed Riswan Sottocorona (1982) was born in
Sri-Lanka and grew up in Italy. He is a graduate of the University
of Roma Tre (BA and MA) and of the University of Pisa (Level 2
Postgraduate Master Course: Translation of Postcolonial Texts in
English: Literature, Essays, Theatre and Cinema). He has worked
on Sri-Lankan writer Romesh Gunesekera and on the Australian
poet Les Murray, and he is currently working on New Zealand Mori
novelist Patricia Grace at Victoria University of Wellington, where
he has just completed a teaching and research assistance exchange.
Marco Sonzogni (1971) holds degrees from the University
of Pavia (BA), University College Dublin (MA), Trinity College
Dublin (PhD), Victoria University of Wellington (MA) and the University
of Auckland (MLitt). He is a Senior Lecturer in the School
of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand, where he is also the Director of the New Zealand
Centre for Literary Translation. A widely published academic and
an award-winning editor, literary translator and poet, he has just
completed a book on book cover design as intersemiotic translation.
The open privacy of the mind:
the confessional poetry of Anna Jackson
Anna Jackson was born in Auckland in 1967. She is a graduate
of Auckland, where she has subsequently taught subjects ranging
from Victorian Literature to Film Studies,; at Oxford University,
she completed a doctoral dissertation entitled A poetics of the Diary.
She currently teaches in the School of English, Film, Theatre and
Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.