Book on women in Six Counties to get Spanish edition

The book Women’s Stories from the North of Ireland by the award winning Italian journalist Silvia Calamati, is to be translated into Spanish. Speaking to An Phoblacht, Calamati, explained that she wanted the book, which has both English and Italian editions, published in Spanish to bring the stories of Irish women affected by the war in the North to a wider worldwide audience.
In August 2002 Calamati launched the English language version of her book in the Art Shop on Belfast’s Falls Road.
The book comprises a series of interviews conducted by Calamati during the 1990s. Among the women she talked to were Rosemary Nelson, who was assassinated by unionist paramilitaries 1999 and Róisín McAliskey, who spoke of her experiences of imprisonment in England.
Calamati graduated from the University of Venice before going to University College Dublin in 1985 as a graduate research student. Whilst in Dublin she covered the war in the North for the Italian weekly Avvenimenti as well as for Italian radio and television.
In 2002 Silvia was the recipient of the Tom Cox Award for her outstanding services to the people of the North.
The Spanish version of her book Hijas de Erin is to be published soon and Silvia intends to have it available throughout Spain and the many Spanish speaking contries of Central and South America.