In the new TLS Carmine Di Biase reviews three Italo Calvino-titles in an interesting overview -- but the observation that really struck me was:
Just as enduring was the influence of the translators themselves. Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, Calvino's early mentors, were two of Einaudi's most tireless translators.Vittorini and especially Pavese were major writer in their own right -- how remarkable (or not, anywhere outside the English-speaking world ...) that they had such an impact as translators too .....