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Tim Parks

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born

January 01, 1954

gender

male

place of birth

Manchester, The United Kingdom

website

http://www.timparks.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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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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avg rating: 3.76 | 757 ratings | 128 reviews | 51 distinct works | 1 fan

	Italian Neighbors by Tim Parks avg rating 3.71 — 160 ratings — published 1998 6 editions	my rating:
	Italian Education by Tim Parks avg rating 3.80 — 100 ratings — published 1995 7 editions	my rating:
	A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals! by Tim Parks avg rating 3.88 — 56 ratings — published 2002 7 editions	my rating:
	Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks avg rating 3.55 — 44 ratings — published 2005 3 editions	my rating:
	Europa by Tim Parks avg rating 3.46 — 41 ratings — published 1997 5 editions	my rating:
	Cleaver by Tim Parks avg rating 3.27 — 22 ratings — published 2006 5 editions	my rating:
	Destiny by Tim Parks avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 1999 7 editions	my rating:
	Judge Savage: A Novel by Tim Parks avg rating 3.38 — 13 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Goodness by Tim Parks avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1991 2 editions	my rating:
	Adultery and Other Diversions by Tim Parks avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 1999 3 editions	my rating: