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Reprints, novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, and biography.

Olivo Oliva

This fantastical novel opens with Pina, a young Sicilian woman, being seduced by the son...

Made in Italy

A tough and poignant novel that tells us the uncompromising story of Nora Moratti. The...

Secret Transfusions

Secret Transfusions is the first dual-language annotated edition of Samuel Beckett's translations of Italian literature...

Passenger: Selected Poems

Passenger is a selection of Antonio Porta's works that were published between 1958 and 1979....

Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans

Since its first publication in 1974, Blood of My Blood has become the most highly...

Tell the Oak Tree to Grow Faster: Selected Aphorisms

Tell the Oak Tree to Grow Faster is the first book of Maria Luisa Spaziani's...

The 1979 publication of The Tough Romance established Pier Giorgio di Cicco as the foremost lyric poet of his generation. The book catalyzed a vibrant Italian-Canadian poesis and pioneered use of Latin-American poetics and "deep-imagism" in Canadian poetry.

The Tough Romance

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
1990

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes: Life Stories of Nine Italian Immigrant Women in Canada

Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History

About Guernica

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs...

Submission Guidelines

Please note that the annual reading period for Guernica Editions and its MiroLand imprint runs from January 1 to March 31. Submissions are only accepted during this period and only as email attachments. Please note that submissions for the Guernica World Editions imprint (for non-Canadian authors) are open year round.