Tim Parks

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Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since, raising a family of three children. He has written fourteen novels including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver and, most recently, In Extremis.

During the nineties he wrote two, personal non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy, Italian Neighbours and An Italian Education, books that won acclaim and popularity for their anthropological wryness. These were complemented in 2002 by A Season with Verona, at once a comic microcosm of provincial fandom and a grand overview of Italian life as seen through the business and passion of football. Other non-fiction works include a history of the Medici bank in 15th century Florence, Medici Money and a narrative reflection on health, illness and meditation, Teach Us to Sit Still. In 2013 Tim published his most recent non-fiction work on Italy, Italian Ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo.

Aside from his own writing, Tim has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Machiavelli and Leopardi; his book, Translating Style, which analyses Italian translations of the English modernists, is considered a classic in its field. He is presently working on a translation of Cesare Pavese's masterpiece, The Moon and the Bonfires.

A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, his many essays are collected in Hell and Back, The Fighter, A Literary Tour of Italy, and Life and Work.

Over the last five years he has published a series of highly popular blogs on writing, reading, translation and the like in the New York Review online. These have been collected in the books Where I am Reading From and Pen in Hand.

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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo 06-Jun-2013

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A Season With Verona 12-Jun-2012

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Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona 12-Jun-2012

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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing 01-Jul-2010

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An Italian Education 12-Jun-2012

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Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness 05-Jul-2018

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Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence 22-Aug-2013

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Cara Massimina 30-Sep-2012

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Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books 06-Nov-2014

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In Extremis 23-Mar-2017

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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal 14-May-2020

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Thomas and Mary: A Love Story 11-Feb-2016

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