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Viola Di Grado
Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy. She now lives and studies in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, won the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and was a finalist for Italy's most prestigious literary prize, The Strega. This is an extract from her second novel, Hollow Heart, published in June by Europa Editions.

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Hollow Heart

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June 2015

Viola Di Grado

TR. Antony Shugaar

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June 2015

2011   I. In 2011 the world ended: I killed myself.   On July 23, at 3:29 in the afternoon, my death set out...

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July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

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July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

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Issue No. 7

On a Decline in British Fiction

Jennifer Hodgson

Patricia Waugh

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Issue No. 7

‘The special fate of the novel,’ Frank Kermode has written, ‘is always to be dying.’ In Britain, the terminal...

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July 2013

Love Dog

Masha Tupitsyn

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July 2013

11 22 2011 – LOVE DOG     For months Hamlet has been floating around. Its book covers popping...

 

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