E-mail to the author by the translator
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:23:56 +0100
From: Alessandra Baroni
Subject: Re: Ermanno Capelli-Yo Yo Denti di Lupo
To: Ermanno Capelli

Hello Ermanno,
what a pleasure to receive your e-mail!
I completed the translation just a few days ago, and now I'm careful revising it to avoid any oversight.
When I came into contact with Laura, she brought two books to be translated: I had to choose between yours and another novel.
I just read the first pages to decide, I was so excited that I could not wait to start work. I think it took me less than five minutes to tell her my choice! I loved your novel! The more I kept on reading the more I got completely involved in it. The novel, through its irony and its grotesque, can pass important messages, without ever becoming banal, indeed!
I must say that I had a lot of fun translating Yo Yo Denti di Lupo. It was a truly pleasure rather than a work.
I had the good fortune to spend a year living in the States. This experience has been very helpful in translating your novel, especially for the use of slang and street language, which unfortunately are not taught at the University ... but on the other hand, they are becoming increasingly popular.
Really, congratulations for your work and I'm waiting for the next one ... Now, I am a fan of yours!
Thanks for the good wishes.
A hug
Alessandra

 

Ermanno Capelli is an Italian writer, and the forerunner of a new literary genre that opens the second decade of the millennium. He was born in Turin (Piedmont, Northern Italy), at fourteen he began writing his first novels.Within a very short time, Ermanno writes several songs for many Italian famous singers.
In addition, Ermanno is the author of the lyric texts Dolce LASSIE (theme song of a known TV series, LESSIE) and of CIAO AMICO, theme song of Zecchino d'Oro (very important Italian television show) for seven years and also the official symbol of UNICEF. WOLFISH TEETH YO YO by Ermanno, is considered his first real novel that represents himself as a writer and an artist.

Translator: Alessandra Baroni
Alessandra Baroni was born in Italy in 1982.
She started studying foreign languages when she was fourteen years old graduating at the high school with a 100% average.
She enrolled at the Università del Piemonte Orientale where she kept on studying English, Spanish and French. She enrolled in a postgraduate course about Literary and Technical-Scientific Translation at the Università ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome. In the meantime she worked for a movie company and for a record label as a translator and taking care of the international relations. In 2007 she got a master’s degree with honors.
She immediately started working as a translator collaborating with some publishing houses and in 2009 she went to the U.S.A. where she worked one year as a cultural representative for the Walt Disney World Company.
Back to Italy, she started working again as a translator and also as an author of e-books for high schools.