Una Chi
Italian writer and translator (1942-2021)
Una Chi (born Bruna Bianchi; Milan, 5 June 1942 – Cisternino, 19 January 2021) was an Italian translator and writer.
Life
Bruna Bianchi was born in Milan in 1942. For many years she was a professor of German literature at the University of Milan. She translated into Italian several German literature masterpieces, including Günter Grass' From the Diary of a Snail (Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke) (Einaudi, Turin, 1974); Max von der Grün's Stellenweise Glatteis (Einaudi, 1977); Max Frisch's Montauk (Einaudi, 1977) and Bluebeard (Einaudi, 1984); Hermann Hesse's Liebesgeschichten (Mondadori, 2016); Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Letzte Gaben (Campanotto, 1990); and Martin Walser's Das Einhorn (Feltrinelli, 1969). She also translated works by Goethe and Thomas Mann.
In 1994 she published her first novel, È duro campo di battaglia il letto. under the pseudonym Una Chi (Italian for "One Who"). She then authored three more erotica books, mostly conspicuous for her scholarly and coldly analytical prose and the crudeness of her narrative.
In 1999 she translated a revised Italian edition of Grass's The Tin Drum for Einaudi.
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