Frederika Randall

 

Frederika Randall (1948–2020) was a writer, reporter, and translator. Among her numerous translations are Ippolito Nievo’s Confessions of an Italian (2015); Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God (2019), and his forthcoming Bug (2021), both published by Restless Books; and two novels by Guido Morselli, The Communist (2017) and Dissipatio H. G. (2020). Randall received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Heim Translation Fund and was awarded the 2011 Cundill History Prize, with Sergio Luzzatto, for the English translation of Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age. She died in Rome in May 2020.

 

BOOKS

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Bug
Bug
$18.00

by Giacomo Sartori

Translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall

A Finalist for the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award

With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds.

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062741
Publication date: Feb 2, 2021

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I Am God
$17.99

by Giacomo Sartori

Translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall

2020 Italian Prose in Translation Award

2019 Foreword INDIE Gold Award for Literary Fiction

A Financial Times Best Book of 2019

Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062147
Publication date: Feb 5, 2019

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
$22.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020

The Sartori Bundle
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The Sartori Bundle
$27.00 $35.99

An elegant pair of glitter-and-gold romps through the outer reaches of science, philosophy, imagination, and love: between child and mother and between God and his own creation. Translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall.

 
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Giacomo Sartori on Writing "Bug"
Giacomo Sartori on Writing "Bug"

Giacomo Sartori on how his rural upbringing and his career as a soil scientist informed the writing of Bug.

An Excerpt from "Bug" by Giacomo Sartori, Author of "I Am God"
An Excerpt from "Bug" by Giacomo Sartori, Author of "I Am God"

“The rain sounded like applause. Applause is something I can’t hear, but when the whole room begins to vibrate I sense it perfectly, it reverberates in my chest and sets off visions in red. Those hands were clapping to celebrate the rising tension of this perfect family tableau. The grand finale, it seemed, was on the way.”

A Tribute to Frederika Randall, "Translator of the Unsaid"
A Tribute to Frederika Randall, "Translator of the Unsaid"

Ilan Stavans pays tribute to the late Frederika Randall, acclaimed translator of Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God and forthcoming Bug.