Alta L. Price
Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. She translates from Italian and German into English, and is a member of the PEN Translation Committee, Cedilla & Co., and TCTC.
Works

An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman's self-discovery.
In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colorful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Adrian Frutiger
There Is No Map: The New Italian(s) [Words Without Borders Sept. issue]
The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic
The Dynamic Library
The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories
Visionary Dictionary
Project of Crisis: Manfredo Tafuri and the Crisis of Modernism
Luca Barcellona: Take Your Pleasure Seriously
First the Music, Then the Words
Casa Casoli: Marcel Duchamp and Other Heretics
Luigi Ontani
Vertigo: A Century of Multimedia Art from Futurism to the Web
Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
Visible Cities: Mimmo Jodice
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Face to Face
Awards and Recognition
- 2013 Gutekunst Prize Winner
- Shortlisted for the 2019 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize