Ilaria M. Orsini

Curator and translator of the anthology "La leggenda della nave di carta", a collection of Japanese science-fiction stories translated from English and published in Italy.

Curated and personally handled translations from English for the anthology 'La leggenda della nave di carta' (published in Italy by Fanucci Editore). The volume contains sixteen stories from the 1970s-1980s and includes an introduction by Carlo Pagetti and collected Hiroshima testimonies.

Ilaria M. Orsini curated and translated the anthology La leggenda della nave di carta, a collection of sixteen Japanese science-fiction stories. The reviewer values Carlo Pagetti's introduction and the collected Hiroshima testimonies but finds the stories lacking critical edge. Overall rating in the review: 2/5.

For:Readers of translated Japanese science fiction, anthology readers, translators, scholars of post-war Japanese literature