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.
EVENTS 2024
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…
October 3, 2024 “Adrift,” an excerpt from THE CIPHER, in Accenti Magazine. Read the excerpt here:
September 17, 2024. BC BookWorld
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.”
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.
JULY 20, 2024
ACCIDENTS, finalist for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards.
June 27, 2024
April 22, 2024
ACCIDENTS on the shortlist
for Di Cicco Poetry Prize.
© 2025 Genni Gunn
