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NEWS & EVENTS 2025

August 24, 2025 

THE CIPHER winner for the SCWES Book Award in Fiction.

June 19, 2025   Launch for THE SHIP FOR KOBE

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June 12, 2025. BOOKS AND BISCOTTI

Reading at the Italian Cultural Centre

Vancouver, B.C.

May 2, 2025

LIBRISSIMI Festival

Panel SALOTTO DEL ROMANZO  — an introduction to new novels by John Calabrò, Carmela Circelli, Genni Gunn and Michael Mirolla.

April 3, 2025

Virtual Launch of THE CIPHER.

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A literary translation event in Vancouver on March 13th, featuring Rachel Mines, Maryte Racys and me as we read and discuss our recent translations from Yiddish, Lithuanian and Italian. Moderating the event will be Anna Foschi Ciampolini. 

March 1, 2015

THE SHIP FOR KOBE (Guernica Editions, 2025)

Translation from Italian of Dacia Maraini’s LA NAVE PER KOBE.

December 20, 2024

Review of THE CIPHER in Accenti Magazine.

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November 4, 2024

A fun thing. The Canadian Authors Association is putting out a jigsaw puzzle featuring 50 Canadian authors, including THE CIPHER.

Review by John Calabro upcoming in Italian Canadiana Spring 2025.

“The Cipher is a powerful, cinematic wartime love story destined for the silver screen…

Read the full review here

 October 3, 2024 “Adrift,” an excerpt from THE CIPHER, in Accenti Magazine. Read the excerpt here:

September 17, 2024.   BC BookWorld

September 9, 2024

THE CIPHER review in The BC Review of Books

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September 4, 2024 

All Lit Up — Under the Cover Blog

“We discovered my father had been recruited into Churchill's Secret Army - the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - to fight a clandestine, guerilla war against the German Nazis and Italian Fascists. Definitely novel material, I thought."

Genni Gunn tells us about the process of writing her new novel THE CIPHER (Signature Editions) - one that also involved delving into her father's secret wartime past.”

Read it HERE

Book Trailer

September 1, 2024

New novel — 

THE CIPHER (Signature Editions, 2024)

September 10, 2024

Publication of YOURS, BEFANA:: A Letter from the Winter Witch, (Greystone Kids,), the English translation from the Italian of Vostra Befana, by Barbara Cuoghi and Elenia Baretta. A delightful picture book, with the most gorgeous illustrations.