Tim Parks

Since the 1990s Parks has written frequently for the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books and has published nonfiction books, including 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.

Parks has translated works by

Parks married Rita Baldassarre in 1979[10] and moved to Italy shortly thereafter. The couple have three children. They divorced in 2017.^{[citation needed]} In 2021 he married Eleonora Gallitelli.^{[citation needed]}

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.
• Goodness, 1991.
• Shear, 1993.
• Mimi's Ghost, 1995, sequel to 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.^[11]
• Hotel Milano, 2023.

Nonfiction

• 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.
• ISBN 0099422670
• Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, 2005.
• "Did you really do that, Dad?" The Guardian, 16 February 2006.
• The Fighter: Essays, 2007.
• Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, 2010,
  Vipassana-meditation. He experiences his body and life in a new way, and the pain diminishes for the most part.^[12]
• 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.
• "Italy Notebook: Our life under lockdown, retracing Garibaldi's footsteps, and resisting the talk of war". New Statesman. 149 (5514): 33. 3–23 April 2020. online
• 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.
• 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.
• Niccolò 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 falò.
• Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Original title Libro di tutti i libri.
• Roberto Calasso, The Tablet of Destinies, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Original title La tavoletta dei destini.^[13]
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Boys Alive, New York Review Classics, 2023. Original title Ragazzi di vita.^[14][15]

Secondary literature

• 2003: 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

1. ^ ^{a b c} Crown, Sarah (27 July 2012). "A life in writing: Tim Parks". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "PARKS, Timothy Harold". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. ^ Parks, Tim. "Hell and Back". timparks.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
4. ^ Gillian Fenwick, "Tim Parks (19 December 1954 -)", in Merritt Moseley (ed), Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 231: British Novelists Since 1960, Fourth Series (Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001), p. 223.
5. ^ "Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
6. ^ "Tim Parks". British Council. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
7. ^ "The Mail on Sunday/John Llewllyn Rhys Prize". Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
8. ^ "Emancipation", for example, was published in "The 2017 Fiction Issue" of Vice.
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
11. ^ 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."
12. ISBN 978-1-6096-1448-5
    .
13. ^ Parks, Tim, "A Text Adrift"
14. ^ TLS review
15. ^ letter to the editor

External links

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.