Tim Parks

Tim Parks ( born December 19, 1954 in Manchester, United Kingdom ) is an English writer and translator.

Biography

He studied at Cambridge ( BA, 1977) and Harvard (Master of Arts, 1979). Since 1981 he has lived in Italy, near Verona, and has, together with its coming from Italy wife, Rita Baldassarre, three children. He is a lecturer at the Università IULM in Milan where she teaches literary translation. Park is regarded as educated expert on European intellectual history.

Work areas and Books

Among his fields of novels, essays and translations ( inter alia, by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Roberto Calasso and Italo Calvino ). His best-known novels are well- Italian relations and Mimi's legacy, the act of living in today's Italy. He also wrote the book A Season with Verona, in which he describes the games of the football club Hellas Verona in the 2000/2001 season and gives an insight into the lifestyle of the Italian tifosi. Parks frequently writes essay contributions to the New York Review of Books.

Awards

Works

Novels

Nonfiction (eg, essays, scientific publications)

Audiobooks

• 2001: fate, Kunstmann of Munich, ISBN 3-88897-287-6, shortened, 2 CDs read by Hanns Hisser, min 268 min
• 2007: silence, Kunstmann of Munich, ISBN 978-3-88897-476-2, shortened, 5 CDs, read by Axel Milberg, 389 min