Stephen Sartarelli

Stephen Sartarelli (born 1954 in Youngstown, Ohio) is a poet and translator.

Life

He graduated from Antioch College and New York University. He has translated the Inspector Montalbano series of detective novels written by the Italian writer Andrea Camilleri; these have gained considerable popularity in the US and the UK.

Sartarelli lives in France.

Awards

• 2001 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets for Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba.

Works

Poetry

• "Annus Sanctus". Titanic Operas. http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/sartarelli1.html. 
• "Lament for the Bamiyan Buddhas". Titanic Operas. http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/sartarelli2.html. 
• "Openings, Endings". Titanic Operas. http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/sartarelli5.html. 

• The Open Vault. Spuyten Duyvil. 2001. ISBN 9781881471523. 
• The Runaway Woods. Spuyten Duyvil. 2000. ISBN 9781881471455. 
• Grievances and Other Poems. Gnosis Press. 1989. ISBN 9780922792047. 

Essays

• "Where Did Our Love Go?". The Nation. December 24, 2003. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040112/sartarelli. 

Translations

Poetry

• Nanni Cagnone, The Book of Giving Back (Edgewise Press, 1997),
• Umberto Saba (1998). Songbook: selected poems from the Canzoniere. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN 9781878818522. 

Prose

• Prince of the Clouds, by Gianni Riotta (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000)
• The Plague-Sower, by Gesualdo Bufalino (1988)
• The House on Moon Lake, by Francesca Duranti (1985).
• Andrea Camilleri (2007). The Patience of the Spider. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin. ISBN 9780143112037. http://books.google.com/?id=_EVhCiCyd44C&dq=Stephen+Sartarelli&printsec=frontcover. 
• Andrea Camilleri (2002). The shape of water. Translator Stephen Sartarelli. Viking. ISBN 9780670030927. 

• Roberto Calasso (1994). The ruin of Kasch. Translator William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674780262. http://books.google.com/?id=BLCCGfcc_CQC&pg=PP1&dq=Stephen+Sartarelli. 
• Laurent Gaudé (2008). The House of Scorta. Translator Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes. Random House, Inc.. ISBN 9780385663571. http://books.google.com/?id=Fn5Yyvp05s4C&pg=PP1&dq=Stephen+Sartarelli. 
• Giacomo Casanova (2001). The story of my life. Translator Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes. Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780140439151. http://books.google.com/?id=-0F8CRLDPv4C&pg=PP1&dq=Stephen+Sartarelli.