Enrico Terrinoni

Enrico Terrinoni is currently a Visiting Professor at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Beniamino Segre Interdisciplinary Center) and Full Professor of English Literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.

In 2024, he received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award granted by the President of Ireland for international achievements in the literary and cultural fields. His book on Joyce in Rome, "Su tutti i vivi e i morti." (Feltrinelli, 2022) won the Special Jury Prize at the Francesco de Sanctis Prize, the Jury Prize at the Viareggio-Répaci Prize, received the Jury Mention at the Comisso Prize, and won the National Prize for English Studies "Sergio Perosa." His edition of Joyce's Ulysses for Bompiani in 2021 (the first bilingual and annotated edition in the world) won the Capalbio International Prize. His "La vita dell'altro" (Bompiani 2023) about the relationship between Svevo and Joyce won the Fiuggi Storia Prize in 2023. Other awarded works include the Italian edition of the Spoon River Anthology for Feltrinelli (Città di Firenze – Von Rezzori Prize), the edition, in collaboration with Fabio Pedone, of the last two books of Finnegans Wake for Mondadori (Annibal Caro Prize), and his first translation of Ulysses for Newton Compton (Napoli Prize). He has given lectures in more than thirty countries. He writes for Manifesto, Left, Il Venerdì, and Il Tascabile Treccani. Among his other works: Occult Joyce: The Hidden in Ulysses (Cambridge Scholars, 2007), James Joyce and the End of the Novel (Carocci, 2015), Silence Dwells Beyond. Translating Literature (Il Saggiatore, 2019), Who's Afraid of the Classics (Cronopio, 2020), The Book About Everything (Head of Zeus, 2022), Literature as Dark Matter (Treccani, 2024).