Michael F. Moore Awarded the 2nd Annual Chametzky Prize

The editors of the Massachusetts Review are proud to announce that the winner of this year’s Jules Chametzky Translation Prize is Michael F. Moore, for the excerpt from his translation of Erri De Luca's The Day Before Happiness, published in the journal’s Casualty Issue.

Michael F. Moore has also translated De Luca's Three Horses and God's Mountain. He has new translations coming out of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (Modern Library, 2013) as well as Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved (Norton, 2013). His other work includes translations of Sandro Veronesi, Franco Moretti, Guido Ceronetti, Umberto Eco, and Joseph Ratzinger. Moore received his Ph.D in Italian Studies from New York University, and has worked as translator and interpreter for the Italian Mission to the United Nations, as well as the Italian Cultural Institute, the Consul-General of Italy, and the Italian Trade Commission. He also chairs the Translation Fund for the PEN American Center.

In an MR2 podcast, Moore discusses his translations of De Luca, and much more, in conversation with Translation Editor Edwin Gentzler and Editor Jim Hicks.