Antony Shugaar

Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator. He has translated screenplays for movies and TV shows that have appeared on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon. He is the author of a number of books and has translated hundreds of others, including Kill the Father and Kill the Angel by Sandrone Dazieri, The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati, Everything Is Broken Up and Dances by Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera, Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia, and The Piranhas and Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano. He is the editor in chief of Red Car Press, a new publishing house focusing on translated fiction (Methaphor Books) and graphic novels. He has championed the publication of Gianni Rodari’s books in English for years, and his translation of Rodari’s Telephone Tales is the winner of the American Library Association’s 2021 Batchelder award.