Ned CondiniNed Condini, born in Turin in 1940, went to Jesuit schools, studied Latin and Greek, and began writing at the age of 16. At the University of Turin, he embarked on a translation into Italian of The History of English Literature, a project ulimately published by Giulio Einaudi Editore as a 1458- page encyclopedia, Storia della letteratura inglese (1966). While working for the Turin firm, a total of twenty years, Condini majored in English and American literature, obtained his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and wrote his own poetry, short stories and novels. Moving to America and becoming a US citizen in 1976, he traveled, taught and managed to survive as a freelance writer, translator and critic. He has completed fifteen books of translation, three novels and four collections of poetry. He is the translator of the Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry published by the Modern Language Association of America (2008). For Chelsea Editions he has translated The Earth's Wall by Giorgio Caproni (2004) and Awakenings by Carlo Betocchi (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the W. B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Prize. Read More Read Less