Translation clients
Italian Cultural Institute in London
For Italian Literature in Translation, Volume IV: Neglected Voices, edited by Howard Curtis, translation of an excerpt from the novel This Kind of Love by Alberto Bevilacqua. Read more about (and download a free copy of) Neglected Voices.
Amici della Scala
Visconti: Cinema, Theatre, Opera, a monograph by Vittoria Crespi Morbio celebrating legendary Italian director Luchino Visconti’s extensive creative career. Published in 2020 by Grafiche Step for Amici della Scala, a non-profit association of supporters of La Scala opera house. By the same author, Prampolini at La Scala, Pizzi at La Scala, Maccari at La Scala, Soffici at La Scala, Perilli at La Scala (for publication in 2021) and Dorazio at La Scala (translation in progress).
Flatiron Books / Macmillan
At the Wolf’s Table (Le assaggiatrici) by Rosella Postorino. Also published in Australia by Simon & Schuster and, with the title The Women at Hitler’s Table, in the U.K. by HarperCollins. Listed on World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2019. Shortlisted for the 2020 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA). Read more about At the Wolf’s Table.
Roberto Piumini
Trusted translator of Italy’s most beloved children’s author. Roberto Piumini received the Rodari Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and is a nominee for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Translations include the children’s poem about the coronavirus Is There Something in the Air? (Che cos’è che in aria vola?) featured at the online Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2020. For potential publication, translation of Splendormere (Lo stralisco); Mattia and Grandpa (Mattia e il nonno); Motu Iti: The Isle of Gulls (Motu-Iti. L’isola dei gabbiani); In the Land of Andover (Nel regno di Bistoria, winner of the 2020 Andersen award’s Trofeo Baia delle Favole). For the Marchesato Opera Festival, Il Trittico del Ritorno del marchese, a short film with poetry set to Baroque music. Translations in progress include the novella for adults L’amorosa figura.
Vicki Satlow Literary Agency
Book samples and synopses to be pitched to international publishers and film producers. Authors include Susanna Tamaro, Franca Fendi, Paola Calvetti, Simone Tempia, Marina Mander, Emanuela Canepa, Roberto Emanuelli, Antonella Boralevi, Simona Sparaco, Romina Casagrande and Silvio Muccino. Two samples were submitted to Books at Berlinale and chosen as finalists, in 2018 and 2020.
Lotus Production
Storylines and, for potential adaptation as a movie or television series, the novel The Days of Disobedience (I giorni della disobbedienza) by Noah S.K.
Paola Maugeri
Rock and Resilience: Life Lessons from the World of Music and Treading Lightly: My Net-Zero Lifestyle (Con passo lieve), autobiographical works by one of Italy’s most popular DJs, translated directly for the author for potential publication
Marco Martani
Like a Father (Come un padre), an action thriller and the debut novel of this award-winning screenwriter, translated directly for the author for potential publication. Film rights optioned by a major Hollywood studio.
The Walt Disney Company / Disney Global Magazines
For 20 years, consultant to Disney Italy, as of 2000 home to Disney Global Magazines, which was responsible for developing 70% of Disney’s worldwide comics content. Italian-to-English translation of comics, books and magazines, including W.I.T.C.H. comics (115 monthly feature stories and 58 short stories for a total of over 8000 pages) and Tinker Bell/Fairies magazine (74 monthly issues). Adapted character names, story titles, jokes and rhymes for a wide variety of Disney properties.
Elisa S. Amore
The self-published young adult fantasy novels Dark Tournament (2017), Expiation (2016), Brokenhearted (2016), Unfaithful (2016), and Touched (2016).
Random House
The complete “Century” quartet of young adult novels by Pierdomenico Baccalario: Dragon of Seas (2012); City of Wind (2011); Star of Stone (2010); and Ring of Fire (2009).
Stefano Bruscolini
A Monster Named Bill (Il mostro Pino), a children’s story written in rhyme with illustrations by Elena Prette. Translated directly for the author for potential release as a book or app.
Fazi Editore
The novel Bright Star: The Authentic Life of John Keats (2012) by Elido Fazi, published as an ebook.
Maga Animation Studio
Scripts and synopses for animated series, including Acqua in Bocca, The Go!Go!Pig! and Psicovip.
Scholastic
The “Ulysses Moore” children’s novels The Long-Lost Map and The Door to Time (2006) by Pierdomenico Baccalario.
Atlantyca / Dreamfarm / Piemme
Books (full or partial) for children and young adults to be pitched to international publishers. Authors include Geronimo Stilton, Alberto Melis, Luigi Garlando, Elisa Puricelli and Giovanni del Ponte.
Sanpellegrino
Main translator of the books The Water Codex I, II and III by Claudia Moriondo and Giuseppe Vaccarini (former President of the Association de la Sommellerie Internationale).
Leah brilliantly adapted Disney’s worldwide comics hit W.I.T.C.H. for our English-speaking markets.
In her translations, Leah’s cheerful, collaborative personal exuberance becomes intelligence and taste, creative rigor: a “bright quality” for which an author can only be grateful.
We turned to Leah with a project that was far from simple: the translation from Italian of a full-length poem for children. Thanks to her experience, the results were even better than we’d hoped for: we managed to keep the rhyme, meter and rhythm without losing a single joke or pun.
At Disney Italy she’s always been considered #1 in the field of translations, and working with her is a pleasure, also because of her personal qualities, which everyone recognizes and appreciates.
Leah is capable of interpreting each text and shaping the language in just the right way, to such an extent that many of her translations turn out to be even better for the readership than the original.
Leah is a great translator with a lot of experience in different fields […] She’s fast, reliable, punctual and dedicates great passion and attention to each project.
Read about her translation of
At the Wolf’s Table
(Le assaggiatrici)
by Rosella Postorino
Leah Janeczko uses her creativity, passion
and expert knowledge of Italian and English
to help others express their authentic voice
in a language not their own.