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Arianna Dagnino

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Genoa, Italy

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I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica, Toronto, 2019), an on-the-road adventure story of hate, love, guilt and redemption under the African sky (now in audiobook format too! https://www.ariannadagnino.com/audiob...)
In my career as an international reporter, literary translator and academic researcher, I have lived in many countries, including a five-year stint in South Africa. I have published several books on the impact of global mobility, science and new technologies. I hold a PhD from the University of South Australia and currently teach Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. ...more

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	The Afrikaner (161) (Essential Prose Series) 4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Principe Ordinario by Shahar Ben Halevi (Goodreads Author), Arianna Dagnino (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Omer Goldlust (Illustrations) 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Jesus Christ Cyberstar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Afrikaner Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw-The Ottawa Review of Books

May 4, 2019

It takes gumption for an author to title her novel The Afrikaner, given the connotations that spring to mind about South Africa's former ruling white minority. It takes even more daring to give human faces to characters belonging to a group that oppressed for decades tens of millions of black Africans. And yet, Arianna Dagnino navigates this issue with taste, sensitivity and exquisitely Read more of this blog post »

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Arianna Dagnino said: " Apparently simple, apparently written in a very accessible language, Aja Gabel’s "The Ensemble" works like a perfectly orchestrated mechanism.
Its structure reminds of a Bach’s fugue, with eight voices (those of four talented members of a string quar ...more "

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Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft

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“At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.”
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“We can accept each other and be together without giving up our differences. It’s useless – even foolish – to reduce us to a common denominator.”
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“The ‘Buffaloes’ were becoming a legend. The Colonel had forged them into a superb fighting machine […] Enough for a young hothead like me to want to be one of them [...]
Sam pauses and looks for a moment into the sparkling fire. The scar on his jaw glistens against the dark skin like broken glass [...]
You slowly fall prey to a sick frenzy. You develop a lust for blood. You even begin to enjoy killing.”
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“Muscles relax, the mind expands. The vastness enters into the skin like a shot. ‘Our’ time dissolves.”
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“While the smoke of the dagga slowly rises into the night, the rhythm of the women’s clapping begins to accelerate. Zoe sees the two men listening intently to that far-away call. Tongues of fire light up their rapt faces, throwing hallucinatory shadows against the bush curtain.”
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“Prison taught me a lot, including things I wouldn’t want to learn. Helplessly witnessing torture, death, the loss of human dignity, the abyss of bestiality our fellow humans can fall into. All this destroys something inside you – something that shouldn’t even be touched.”
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“Unsure about its place and identity, a whole nation was made to believe that ethnic pride and culture could only descend from race.”
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