Stiliana Milkova

Stiliana Milkova is a Bulgarian-born literary critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College. She has translated from Italian works by Adriana Cavarero, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco, and others. She is the author of Elena Ferrante as World Literature (2021) and of many scholarly articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literatures. She edits the online journal Reading in Translation.

Cards on the Table: Three Contemporary Italian Women Writers Open the Doors of Their Workshops

February 8, 2022

The creative writing of the twenty-first century will be remembered for having sanctioned the passage of text from paper to digital support. But is it really true that the author’s cards have disappe...
Margherita

By Roberto Carretta

Spring 2020
Roberto Carretta

Photo: Mark Eder / Unsplash Margherita was tiny and hunched. She had light eyes, and always—summer or winter—wore a shawl she kept closed on her chest with her hand, as if clutching a necklace...