Daniele Monticelli (1970) has an MA in Philosophy from University of Milan (1995), PhD in semiotis and culutral theory from Univeristy of Tartu (2008), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University Department of Comparative Literature (2014) and has translated into Italian a series of short stories and essays by Estonian writers (Andrus Kivirähk, Tõnu Õnnepalu, Viivi Luik, Karl Martin Sinijärv) and intellectuals (Iivi-Ann Masso, Toomas Kiho, Krista Kaer), plays (Jaan Tätte, Urmas Lennuk, Andrus Kivirähk, Mart Kase), poetry (Maarja Kangro, Andres Ehin, Ülar Ploom, Hasso Krull) and texts in the field of arts, history, architecture (for the journal “Domus” and others).
2009
Premio principale per il concorso nazionale di ricerca del Ministero dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca della Repubblica estone per la tesi di dottorato: “Wholeness and its remainders. Theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics”
2006
Premio annuale della rivista Keel ja Kirjandus per l’articolo “Keeleuuendus ja tõlkimine “Noor-Eesti” kultuurilise utoopia raames Villem Ridala tõlgitud ‘Süütu’ tõlke näitel”
2001
Premio del Ministero per gli Affari Esteri della Repubblica Italiana per l’edizione del dizionario estone-italiano.
Premio principale per il concorso nazionale di ricerca del Ministero dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca della Repubblica estone per la tesi di dottorato: “Wholeness and its remainders. Theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics”
2006
Premio annuale della rivista Keel ja Kirjandus per l’articolo “Keeleuuendus ja tõlkimine “Noor-Eesti” kultuurilise utoopia raames Villem Ridala tõlgitud ‘Süütu’ tõlke näitel”
2001
Premio del Ministero per gli Affari Esteri della Repubblica Italiana per l’edizione del dizionario estone-italiano.
La gatta vagabonda
Original title: The Wandering Cat
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Catherine Zarip
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2014, 28 pp
ISBN: 9788876092619
fiction, picturebook
Voglio tutto rosa
Original title: Emma Loves Pink
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2014, 38 pp
ISBN: 9788876092862
fiction, picturebook
La principessa e lo scheletro
Original title: Princess Lulu and Mr Bones
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2015, 189 pp
ISBN: 9788876092978
fiction, storybook
Una piccola grande invenzione
Original title: Storybook
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Federico Appel
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2017, 64 pp
ISBN: 9788876093692
fiction, storybook
Micromamma
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Francesca Carabelli
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2018, 124 pp
ISBN: 9788876093753
fiction, storybook
Lotte. L’avventuroso viaggio al sud
Original title: Lotte’s Journey South
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Heiki Ernits
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
De Bastiani
2019, 149 pp
ISBN: 9788884666048
fiction, storybook
Cosa è successo al coccodrillo?
Original title: What Happened to the Crocodile?
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Anne Pikkov
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Lindau
2020, 37 pp
ISBN: 9788833533483
fiction, storybook
Il microscopio della zia
Original title: Sander’s Microsope
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Marja-Liisa Plats
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2023, 64 pp
ISBN: 9788876095405
fiction, storybook, picturebook
Martin lo scheletro
Original title: John the Skeleton’s Goings-On
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Marja-Liisa Plats
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2024, 80 pp
ISBN: 9788876096068
fiction, picturebook
Quanti problemi, Arvo!
Original title: Pärt in a Pickle
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Anna Ring
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2024, 96 pp
ISBN: 9788876096051
storybook, fiction
