Swan Isle Press

Hidden Path

Elena Fortún

Translated by Jeffrey Zamostny with a Foreword by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo68982878.html
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Celia in the Revolution

New edition

Elena Fortún
Translated by Michael Ugarte
With a Foreword by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo208648235.html
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Biblioteca Elena Fortún

University of Chicago Press
Swan Isle Press

Instituto Cervantes Chicago
Instituto Cervantes
The Queen Sofía Spanish Institute

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"Cartas extensas, apasionadas, detalladas... cartas que no se limitaban a ella y a su receptor, sino que describían el ambiente, los paisajes, las emociones, los problemas, los personajes de alrededor... todo el entorno. Cartas que, en sí, son cada una una obra literaria". MARISOL DORAO
Os esperamos el viernes 19 de junio a las 19.30h en Real Fábrica de Chueca (Pérez Galdós, n°3, Madrid) para presentar el tercer tomo de las cartas de Elena Fortún con Estrella Alonso, Maite Cabrerizo e Inmaculada García Carretero.
Editorial Renacimiento.

Delighted to see this well-deserved attention to the works of Sicilian playwright and filmmaker Emma Dante in the The New York Times!

Swan Isle Press published the first major English of translation of Emma Dante's plays a few years ago, brilliantly translated by Francesca Spedalieri from the original Sicilian, Neapolitan, and Italian.

Excerpt from the The New York Times article and interview by Laura Capelle reporting from Rome.

In an Italy of Many Voices, Emma Dante’s Plays Speak ‘the Language of the People’ - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/theater/emma-dante-venice-theater-biennale.html

"Few artists working today are as closely identified with Sicily as the theater director Emma Dante. Her first stage hit, “In Palermo,” from 2001, was named for her hometown and featured the local dialect. From 2008 onward, the city also housed her company’s work space, La Vicaria, from which her international career took flight.

"Yet last year, Dante closed La Vicaria and moved to Rome. The decision, she said recently at her new home, was the result of a lack of public support in Sicily — in spite of the cultural cachet she brought to Palermo’s vernacular language, which is rarely heard onstage.

"“I’ve never knocked on the doors of power or been tied to any political group — so in Palermo, the institutions never helped me,” she said. “At a certain point, I couldn’t take it anymore.”

"The change of scenery comes at a moment of international acclaim for Dante’s brand of physical theater, which explores the lives of dysfunctional families and social outsiders with biting humor. This year, Dante made her directing debut at the Comédie-Française, the venerable French ensemble, and on Friday she will receive the prestigious Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Theater Biennale."

Swan Isle Press's first major English translation.

mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays
Emma Dante
Translated and with an Introduction by Francesca Spedalieri
Illustrations by Carmine Maringola
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo38602102.html
University of Chicago Press

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Goodman Theatre
The Public Theater
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
American Theatre magazine
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
Northwestern University School of Communication
PBS Books

In an Italy of Many Voices, Emma Dante’s Plays Speak ‘the Language of the People’ Since her mother’s death, Emma Dante has used the stage as a space to dive into her Sicilian roots — and the contradictions of family life.