Jay Parini
JAY PARINI s-a nascut in 1948, in Pittston, Pennsylvania. Dupa studii de filologie si un doctorat obtinut in 1975 la University of St. Andrews, in Scotia, devine profesor de limba engleza si preda vreme de sapte ani la Darmouth College din New Hampshire, Hanover. Din 1982 se muta la Middlebury College in Vermont, unde activeaza si in prezent. Este autorul mai multor volume de poezie, printre care House of Days (1998) si The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (2005). Este, de asemenea, un reputat critic si istoric literar, volumele sale John Steinbeck (1995), Robert Frost: A Life (1999), Why Poetry Matters (2008), Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America (2008) fiind foarte apreciate in Statele Unite. Parini are o bogata activitate de editor, coordonand lucrari precum The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1998), British Writers Classics (2003), The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004). De o deosebita apreciere s-a bucurat si volumul sau bazat pe intamplari reale Borges si eu. O intalnire (Borges and Me: An Encounter, 2020; Humanitas Fiction, 2023), aflat pe lista lunga a Highland Book Prize in 2021 si in curs de ecranizare. Romancier de mare succes, Jay Parini a publicat opt romane, dintre care amintim Ultima gara (The Last Station, 1990; 2007; Humanitas Fiction, 2009, 2022), Calatoria lui Walter Benjamin (Benjamin’s Crossing, 1996; Humanitas Fiction, 2023), The Apprentice Lover (2002), Ratacirile lui Herman Melville (The Passages of H.M., 2011; Humanitas Fiction, 2013) si The Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul (2019). Parini locuieste in Vermont, fiind colaborator permanent al mai multor publicatii, precum The Guardian si The Chronicle of Higher Education, iar cu articole de opinie contribuie la site-uri renumite, precum CNN, Salon si The Daily Beast. Cartile sale sunt traduse in peste treizeci de limbi.
