Buscemi, Santi V.

Santi Buscemi is the son of immigrants from Agrigento, Sicily. He is the translator of Luigi Capuana’s Nine Sicilian Plays (Edwin Mellin Press), as well as Capuana’s Sicilian Tales (C’era una volta), the The Marquis of Roccaverdina, and Profiles of Women. He has presented at a conference marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of Luigi Capuana in 2015, at which he was made an honorary citizen of the author’s hometown of Mineo, Italy. He is a cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the House of Savoy and is the recipient of the Pergamena Onorifica, Centro Studi Frederico II, Palermo e Roma. He lectures on the culture of southern Italy, especially Sicily, about which he has written two slide presentations on the island’s history and literature.