Biography Elio Vittorini, novelist, translator, and literary critic, was born in 1908 in Siracusa, Sicily, and died in 1966. Between 1934 and 1941, he translated the works of D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden. His first novel, In Sicily, (1938, tr. 1949) brought about his imprisonment by the Fascist regime. Such works as The Twilight of the Elephant (1947, tr. 1961) and The Red Carnation (1948, tr. 1952) also deal with the experience of Fascism. Other,later works include The Dark and the Light (1956), Diario in pubblico (1957), and Le Città nel mondo (1969). Vittorini has been translated into eleven languages. Links to the contributor's work in Frigate Issue #3 ESSAY/FEATURES: BURIED TREASURES Excerpts from Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini, translated by Alane Salierno Mason

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