Henry Furst


Henry Furst was an American journalist, writer, playwright and historian.

Biography

The versatile intellectual was born in New York on October the 11th 1893 from a family of German origins. He spoke and wrote in English, Italian, French, German.
He was a ferocious anti-fascist during the Italian two decades of fascist rule, and a minister during the Italian Regency of Carnaro and had the merit of convincing Gabriele d'Annunzio to recognize the independence of the Irish Free State before any other nation.
During the 1930s he worked as the Italian correspondent for The New York Times Book Review and as a partner of the literary journal L'Italiano. In this period, together with Indro Montanelli and Giovanni Ansaldo, he helped Leo Longanesi to establish the Longanesi publishing house and subsequently worked for Longanesi's periodical magazines Il Libraio and neo-fascist weekly newspaper Il Borghese.
Married to writer Orsola Nemi, in her partnership he became a prolific and versatile translator of German texts into Italian, from Italian into English and in particular from English into Italian.

Translations and guardianship