We are delighted to announce a forthcoming event ‘Translating Alasdair Gray’ an in-conversation with Professor Enrico Terrinoni (translator of Gray’s work in Italian) and Dr. Rodge Glass (Gray’s biographer) on Friday, 23rd May at 12:00 pm at The Alasdair Gray Archive in Glasgow (The Whisky Bond, 2 Dawson Rd, Glasgow, G4 9SS).
Enrico Terrinoni is currently Professor in residence at the Italian National Academy “Lincei” and Chair of English Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Mendel Fellow at University of Indiana, Visiting Scholar at Marsh’s Library, and Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan Normal University. He translated many authors such as Brendan Behan, James Stephens, Oscar Wilde, Michael D. Higgins, GB Shaw and James Joyce. For his translations he won several prizes: the City of Naples Award, the Annibal Caro Prize, The City of Florence – Von Rezzori Prize, The Capalbio International Prize. His study of Joyce’s time in Rome (Su tutti i vivi e i morti) won the De Sanctis Prize, the Viareggio-Répaci Prize and the Perosa Prize. His study of Joyce’s friendship with writer Italo Svevo, La vita dell’altro won the Fiuggi Storia Award. His first novel, A Beautiful Nothing was published in 2024.
Rodge Glass is the multi-award-winning author of nine books, including Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. He has been writing about Alasdair Gray for 20 years. Rodge is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.
The Alasdair Gray Archive is a free, public resource which was established in March 2020 after Alasdair Gray’s death in late 2019. It holds both Gray’s family collection as well as recent acquisitions & donations acquired by the Archive. When you visit us it is like walking into Alasdair’s front room with the objects & items that surrounded him, many of which feature in his work. This collection consists of original visual artworks, sketches and drawings, Gray’s original prints made with Glasgow Print Studio and Edinburgh Printmakers, a restaging of his working studio set up, a section of his personal library, all Gray publications (including those he designed for others) as well as a section of literary papers, photographs and correspondence all held there for research & learning purposes.
Alasdair Gray was born in 1934 in Riddrie, Glasgow. Often referred to as a polymath, he dedicated his life to ‘making imagined objects’ across space and form. He made poems, plays, short stories, novels, political essays, marginalia, typeset and designed his books and those of others, created murals, paintings, drawings and prints. Both an artist and writer from an early age, Gray was arguably the most acclaimed and most influential writer in post-war Scotland. His 1981 debut novel, Lanark, is widely seen as ushering in a fertile period not only for Scotland’s literature but for its arts as a whole.
Spaces are limited so please email info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org to reserve your spot. Please let us know of any access requirements.
Refreshments will be provided. This event will be recorded.