Between 1993 and 2019 Parks taught as a university professor at IULM University, Milan. He is also a translator and has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giacomo Leopardi, and Fleur Jaeggy. His non-fiction book Translating Style has been described as "canonical in the field of translation studies".[4] He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian. In 2011 he co-curated the exhibition Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and a book of the same title, edited by Ludovica Sebregondi and Tim Parks, was published in 2012 by Giunti. ISBN978-8809767645. The exhibition was loosely based on Parks' book Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence.
Personal life
Parks married Rita Baldassarre in 1979. The couple have three children. They divorced in 2017.[5]
Bibliography
Fiction
Tongues of Flame. 1985.
Loving Roger. 1986.
Home Thoughts, 1987.
Family Planning, 1989. The trials and tribulations of a mother, father and their children as they cope with the unexpected and sometimes violent behaviour of Raymond, who is suffering from a mental illness but will not agree to professional help.
Cara Massimina, 1990, a murder story first published under the pseudonym "John MacDowell", but later in the author's own name. Later released in the US under the title Juggling the Stars.
Talking About It, 2005. A collection of short stories.
Cleaver, 2006.
Dreams of Rivers and Seas, 2008.
The Server, 2012. Subsequently published as Sex is Forbidden: A Novel.
Painting Death, 2014. Book 3 in the Cara Massimina trilogy.
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story, 2016.
In Extremis, 2017.
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal, 2020.[6]
Hotel Milano, January 2023 (forthcoming).
Non-fiction
Italian Neighbours, 1992. Relates how the author and his wife came to a small town near Verona and how they integrate and become accustomed to the unusual habits of their newfound neighbours. ISBN0099286955
An Italian Education, 1996. Follow up to Italian Neighbours and recounts the milestones in the life of the author's children as they progress through the Italian school system. ISBN0099286963
Translating Style, 1997.
Adultery and Other Diversions, 1999.
Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie, 2001.
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, 2005.
The Fighter: Essays, 2007.
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, 2010, Harvill Secker, ISBN9781846553998. In this book, Parks describes his search for relief from chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). His urologist thinks surgery will be the only solution, but after several examinations, no clear cause is found for the pain. Parks wonders if the pain can be (partly) psychosomatic. In his search, he reads the book A Headache in the Pelvis: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain (ISBN9781788171892) by psychologist (and long time CPPS-sufferer) David Wise and neurourologist Rodney Anderson (Stanford University), in which the authors describe methods of 'paradoxical relaxation' to prevent chronic tensing of the pelvic musculature. Parks starts doing the recommended relaxation-exercises daily, and later on, also practices Vipassana-meditation. He experiences his body and life in a new way, and the pain diminishes for the most part.[7]
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, 2013.
Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books, 2014.
The Novel: A Survival Skill, 2015.
A Literary Tour of Italy, 2015.
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them, 2016.
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness, 2018.
"Her Programme," in Writers and Their Mothers,Dale Salwak, ed., 2018.
"Is literary glory worth chasing?". NYR Daily. The New York Review of Books. 27 November 2018.
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries, 2019.
"Our life under lockdown ...". Italy Notebook. New Statesman. 149 (5514): 33. 3–23 April 2020.
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna, 2021.
Translations of Italian works
Alberto Moravia, Erotic Tales, Secker & Warburg, 1985. Original title La cosa.
Alberto Moravia, The Voyeur, Secker & Warburg, 1986. Original title L'uomo che guarda.
Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne, Chatto & Windus, 1988. Original title Notturno indiano.
Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome, Secker & Warburg, 1989. Original title Viaggio a Roma.
Antonio Tabucchi, Vanishing Point, Chatto & Windus, 1989. Original title Il filo dell'orizzonte.
Antonio Tabucchi, The Woman of Porto Pim, Chatto & Windus, 1989. Original title La donna di Porto Pim.
Antonio Tabucchi, The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, Chatto & Windus, 1989. Original title I volatili del Beato Angelico.
Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, Heinemann, 1991. Original title I beati anni del castigo. The translation won the John Florio Prize.
Giuliana Tedeschi, There is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau, Pantheon Books, 1992. Original title C'è un punto della terra.
Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Knopf, 1993. Original title Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia. The translation won the Italo Calvino Prize.
Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni, Pantheon Books, 1993. Original title La strada di San Giovanni. The translation won the John Florio Prize.
Italo Calvino, Numbers in the Dark, Pantheon Books, 1995. Original title Prima che tu dica pronto.
Fleur Jaeggy, Last Vanities, New Directions, 1998. Original title La paura del cielo.
Roberto Calasso, Ka, New York: Knopf, 1998. Original title Ka.
Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods, New York: Knopf, 2000. Original title La letteratura e gli dei.
Giacomo Leopardi, Passions, Penguin Classics, 2014. Original title Le passioni.
Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires, Penguin Classics, 2021. Original title La luna e i falò.
Secondary literature
2003: Gillian Fenwick: Understanding Tim Parks. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, ISBN1-57003-456-7.
2001: Gillian Fenwick: "Tim Parks (19 December 1954 - )," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 231: British Novelists Since 1960, Fourth Series. United States Gale, ISBN0-7876-4648-2.
Notes
^"Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^. Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^Clarke, Jonathan J. (6 July 2016). "Without Illusions: Jonathan J. Clarke interviews Tim Parks". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
^Parks' website states that this book is not a memoir. "It’s true, there is an Englishman among the many Italians. He has a central role. Readers may feel that’s Parks, there he is. But I have taken the liberty of giving this man many experiences that are not mine."
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Tim Parks news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message Timothy Harold Parks born 19 December 1954 is a British novelist translator author and professor of literature Tim ParksParks in Arezzo in 2019BornTimothy Harold Parks 1954 12 19 19 December 1954 age 68 Manchester England UKAlma materDowning College CambridgeHarvard UniversityPeriod1985 presentNotable worksEuropa Destiny Teach Us to Sit Still In ExtremisSpouseRita Baldassarre m 1979 div 2017 wbr Children3WebsiteOfficial website Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Bibliography 3 1 Fiction 3 2 Non fiction 3 3 Translations of Italian works 4 Secondary literature 5 Notes 6 External linksCareer EditHe is the author of eighteen novels notably Europa which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997 His first novel Tongues of Flame won both the Betty Trask Award 1 and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986 2 In the same year Parks was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Loving Roger 3 Other highly praised titles were Shear Destiny Judge Savage Cleaver and In Extremis He has also had a number of stories published in The New Yorker Since the 1990s Parks has written frequently for both the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books as well as publishing various works of non fiction most notably A Season with Verona shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and Teach Us to Sit Still shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize Between 1993 and 2019 Parks taught as a university professor at IULM University Milan He is also a translator and has translated works by Alberto Moravia Antonio Tabucchi Italo Calvino Roberto Calasso Niccolo Machiavelli Giacomo Leopardi and Fleur Jaeggy His non fiction book Translating Style has been described as canonical in the field of translation studies 4 He twice won the John Florio Prize for translations from the Italian In 2011 he co curated the exhibition Money and Beauty Bankers Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and a book of the same title edited by Ludovica Sebregondi and Tim Parks was published in 2012 by Giunti ISBN 978 8809767645 The exhibition was loosely based on Parks book Medici Money Banking Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth Century Florence Personal life EditParks married Rita Baldassarre in 1979 The couple have three children They divorced in 2017 5 Bibliography EditFiction Edit Tongues of Flame 1985 Loving Roger 1986 Home Thoughts 1987 Family Planning 1989 The trials and tribulations of a mother father and their children as they cope with the unexpected and sometimes violent behaviour of Raymond who is suffering from a mental illness but will not agree to professional help Cara Massimina 1990 a murder story first published under the pseudonym John MacDowell but later in the author s own name Later released in the US under the title Juggling the Stars Goodness 1991 Shear 1993 Mimi s Ghost 1995 sequel of Cara Massimina Europa 1997 Destiny 1999 Judge Savage 2003 Rapids 2005 Talking About It 2005 A collection of short stories Cleaver 2006 Dreams of Rivers and Seas 2008 The Server 2012 Subsequently published as Sex is Forbidden A Novel Painting Death 2014 Book 3 in the Cara Massimina trilogy Thomas and Mary A Love Story 2016 In Extremis 2017 Italian Life A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal 2020 6 Hotel Milano January 2023 forthcoming Non fiction Edit Italian Neighbours 1992 Relates how the author and his wife came to a small town near Verona and how they integrate and become accustomed to the unusual habits of their newfound neighbours ISBN 0099286955 An Italian Education 1996 Follow up to Italian Neighbours and recounts the milestones in the life of the author s children as they progress through the Italian school system ISBN 0099286963 Translating Style 1997 Adultery and Other Diversions 1999 Hell and Back Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie 2001 A Season With Verona following the fortunes of Hellas Verona F C in season 2000 2001 ISBN 0099422670 Medici Money Banking Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth Century Florence 2005 The Fighter Essays 2007 Teach Us to Sit Still A Sceptic s Search for Health and Healing 2010 Harvill Secker ISBN 9781846553998 In this book Parks describes his search for relief from chronic prostatitis chronic pelvic pain syndrome CPPS His urologist thinks surgery will be the only solution but after several examinations no clear cause is found for the pain Parks wonders if the pain can be partly psychosomatic In his search he reads the book A Headache in the Pelvis The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain ISBN 9781788171892 by psychologist and long time CPPS sufferer David Wise and neurourologist Rodney Anderson Stanford University in which the authors describe methods of paradoxical relaxation to prevent chronic tensing of the pelvic musculature Parks starts doing the recommended relaxation exercises daily and later on also practices Vipassana meditation He experiences his body and life in a new way and the pain diminishes for the most part 7 Italian Ways On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo 2013 Where I m Reading From The Changing World of Books 2014 The Novel A Survival Skill 2015 A Literary Tour of Italy 2015 Life and Work Writers Readers and the Conversations Between Them 2016 Out of My Head On the Trail of Consciousness 2018 Her Programme in Writers and Their Mothers Dale Salwak ed 2018 Is literary glory worth chasing NYR Daily The New York Review of Books 27 November 2018 Pen in Hand Reading Rereading and Other Mysteries 2019 Our life under lockdown Italy Notebook New Statesman 149 5514 33 3 23 April 2020 The Hero s Way Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna 2021 Translations of Italian works Edit Alberto Moravia Erotic Tales Secker amp Warburg 1985 Original title La cosa Alberto Moravia The Voyeur Secker amp Warburg 1986 Original title L uomo che guarda Antonio Tabucchi Indian Nocturne Chatto amp Windus 1988 Original title Notturno indiano Alberto Moravia Journey to Rome Secker amp Warburg 1989 Original title Viaggio a Roma Antonio Tabucchi Vanishing Point Chatto amp Windus 1989 Original title Il filo dell orizzonte Antonio Tabucchi The Woman of Porto Pim Chatto amp Windus 1989 Original title La donna di Porto Pim Antonio Tabucchi The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico Chatto amp Windus 1989 Original title I volatili del Beato Angelico Fleur Jaeggy Sweet Days of Discipline Heinemann 1991 Original title I beati anni del castigo The translation won the John Florio Prize Giuliana Tedeschi There is a Place on Earth A Woman in Birkenau Pantheon Books 1992 Original title C e un punto della terra Roberto Calasso The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony Knopf 1993 Original title Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia The translation won the Italo Calvino Prize Italo Calvino The Road to San Giovanni Pantheon Books 1993 Original title La strada di San Giovanni The translation won the John Florio Prize Italo Calvino Numbers in the Dark Pantheon Books 1995 Original title Prima che tu dica pronto Fleur Jaeggy Last Vanities New Directions 1998 Original title La paura del cielo Roberto Calasso Ka New York Knopf 1998 Original title Ka Roberto Calasso Literature and the Gods New York Knopf 2000 Original title La letteratura e gli dei Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince Penguin Classics 2009 Original title Principe Giacomo Leopardi Passions Penguin Classics 2014 Original title Le passioni Cesare Pavese The Moon and the Bonfires Penguin Classics 2021 Original title La luna e i falo Secondary literature Edit2003 Gillian Fenwick Understanding Tim Parks University of South Carolina Press Columbia ISBN 1 57003 456 7 2001 Gillian Fenwick Tim Parks 19 December 1954 in Dictionary of Literary Biography vol 231 British Novelists Since 1960 Fourth Series United States Gale ISBN 0 7876 4648 2 Notes Edit Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards Society of Authors Retrieved 1 March 2017 Tim Parks British Council Retrieved 1 March 2017 The Mail on Sunday John Llewllyn Rhys Prize Archived from the original on 4 December 2005 Retrieved 1 March 2017 Clarke Jonathan J 6 July 2016 Without Illusions Jonathan J Clarke interviews Tim Parks Los Angeles Review of Books Los Angeles Retrieved 1 March 2017 Index entry FreeBMD ONS Retrieved 11 January 2018 Parks website states that this book is not a memoir It s true there is an Englishman among the many Italians He has a central role Readers may feel that s Parks there he is But I have taken the liberty of giving this man many experiences that are not mine Parks Tim 2012 2010 Teach Us to Sit Still A Skeptic s Search for Health and Healing Rodale Books ISBN 978 1 6096 1448 5 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Tim Parks Interview with Tim Parks by Scott Esposito in Bomb Interview with Tim Parks in The Quarterly Conversation 4 March 2013 Interview with 3 AM Review of Destiny at Spike Magazine Review of Europa at The Occasional Review Parks author page and archive from The New York Review of Books Parks author page and archive from The London Review of Books Official website of Tim Parks Without Illusions Jonathan J Clarke interviews Tim Parks Los Angeles Review of Books 6 July 2016 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tim Parks amp oldid 1127133988, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
