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Authors: Elvira Dones

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Born in Durrës, Albania,
Elvira Dones
is a novelist, screenwriter and documentary film-maker currently based in the US. After seven novels in Albanian, she wrote the two most recent in Italian, her adopted language:
Vergine giurata
(
Sworn Virgin
, 2007) and
Piccola guerra perfetta
(Small Perfect War, 2010) about the Kosovo war. In her prize-winning documentary on the phenomenon of ‘sworn virgins' in Albania, Dones interviews twelve survivors of the practice, one of whom has recently emigrated to the US, like Hana in the novel. A film of the novel
Sworn Virgin
is due out in
2014.

Clarissa Botsford
studied Italian at Cambridge and Comparative Education in London before moving to Rome. She has worked in the fields of teaching, intercultural education and publishing, and is also a musician. She currently teaches English and Translation Studies at Rome University and translates contemporary Italian fiction and poetry.

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Title:
Sworn Virgin
Author: Elvira
Dones
Editor: Sophie
Lewis
Copy-editor: Bella Whittington
Proofreader: Alex Billington
Series & Cover Design: Joseph Harries
Typesetter & eBook version:
Tetragon, London

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