Oonagh Stransky

Oonagh Stransky has been a translator of Italian literature for over twenty years. Some of the writers whose work she has brought into English include Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lucarelli, Giuseppe Pontiggia, and Roberto Saviano. Stransky studied Italian at Middlebury Language Schools, received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Mills College and UC Berkeley in 1989, and her M.A. in Italian from Columbia University in 2002. She currently lives in Italy. Her translation of Domenico...See more

Oonagh Stransky has been a translator of Italian literature for over twenty years. Some of the writers whose work she has brought into English include Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lucarelli, Giuseppe Pontiggia, and Roberto Saviano. Stransky studied Italian at Middlebury Language Schools, received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Mills College and UC Berkeley in 1989, and her M.A. in Italian from Columbia University in 2002. She currently lives in Italy. Her translation of Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and for the American Literary Translators Association 2024 Italian Prose in Translation Award. See less