Tim Parks

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January 01, 1954 in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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http://www.timparks.com/

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Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He has written eleven novels including Europa, Destiny, Cleaver and, most recently, Dreams of Rivers and Seas, as well as three non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy (most recently A Season with Verona), a collection of 'narrative' essays, Adultery and Other Diversions, and a history of the Medici bank in 15th century Florence, Medici Money. His many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and Machiavelli. He lectures on literary translation in Milan and has published a book, Translating Style, which analyses Italian translations of the English modern...more

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Average rating: 3.80 · 4,844 ratings · 548 reviews · 40 distinct works

	Italian Neighbors 3.59 avg rating — 545 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Italian Education 3.81 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Characters 4.03 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Teach Us To Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search For Health And Healing 3.61 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence 3.48 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Europa 3.27 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Cleaver. Tim Parks 3.24 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Destiny 3.28 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Dreams Of Rivers And Seas. By Tim Parks 3.29 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Cara Massimina 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:

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