Apulian Days
Once upon a cuckoo’s nest
Columnist Aldo Magagnino, eager to improve his English, went to London in the 1970s, and his job took him to an asylum that left indelible memories.
Coming of age, in English
New columnist Aldo Magagnino recalls stumbling on, and learning, a tongue from a distant land.
Author
Aldo Magagnino was born in Alezio (Apulia). After a career as a teacher of English he now works fulltime as a literary translator. He now lives in the Apulian town of Presicce, a few miles from Santa Maria di Leuca, land’s end of the Italian boot, with his wife, two dogs and a variable number of cats.