Livia Manera Sambuy

Livia Manera Sambuy is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers, Don't Write About Me , was published in 2015. She is also the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She regularly contributes to the literary pages of the Italian national daily Corriere della Sera . Todd Portnowitz is the translator of The Greatest Invention ; Long Live Latin ; and Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello, for which he was awarded a Raiziss...See more

Livia Manera Sambuy is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers, Don't Write About Me , was published in 2015. She is also the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She regularly contributes to the literary pages of the Italian national daily Corriere della Sera . Todd Portnowitz is the translator of The Greatest Invention ; Long Live Latin ; and Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello, for which he was awarded a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets . He lives in Brooklyn, New York. See less