Aldo Busi

Aldo Busi
Busi in 2008
Busi in 2008
Born (1948-02-25) 25 February 1948 (age 76)
Montichiari (Brescia), Lombardy, Italy
OccupationNovelist, translator
LanguageItalian
NationalityItalian
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materUniversity of Verona
Period1984–present
Literary movementPostmodernism
Notable worksSeminar on Youth
The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman
Sodomies in Elevenpoint
Notable awardsPremio Mondello 1984, Premio Frignano 2002, Premio Boccaccio 2013.

Aldo Busi (born 25 February 1948) is a contemporary Italian writer and translator, famous for his linguistic invention and for his polemic force as well as for some prestigious translations from English, German and ancient Italian that include Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Lewis Carroll, Christina Stead, Giovanni Boccaccio, Baldesar Castiglione, Friedrich Schiller, Joe Ackerley, John Ashbery, Heimito von Doderer, Ruzante, Meg Wolitzer, Paul Bailey, Nathaniel Hawthorne.[1]

  1. ^ See (in Italian) M.Cavalli, Aldo Busi, Florence, Cadmo, 2007.