Diego Marani is a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels and the inventor of Europanto, a jokey lingua franca. No surprise then to find that his most celebrated novel, published in Italian ...

WHAT reader in their right mind would buy a novel called New Finish Grammar? Moreover, the cover of this edition looks like it was designed on that tacky computer programme students use to make ...

The premise of New Finnish Grammar is inspired: a wounded soldier is found by a German crew on the quay at Trieste in September, 1943. He has no identification on him, no memory whatsoever and, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Diego Marani is a lover of language and became a bit of a Euro-celebrity for inventing a mock language ...

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Diego Marani is a lover of language and became a bit of a Euro-celebrity for inventing a mock language called Europanto, a tossed salad of every European language without rules or grammar. He's also ...