Eugenio De Signoribus

Italian poet

Eugenio De Signoribus (born 1947) is an Italian poet. He was born and lives in Cupra Marittima in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy.^[1] He was winner in 2002 of the Castelfiorentino Literature Prize and in 2008 of the Viareggio Prize.

Swedish Academician Kjell Espmark has described him as "a more severe and rigorous voice than those to which we are accustomed. His powerfully visionary poetry frees itself from every casual or superfluous element to give emphasis to the primary conditions of existence."^[2]

He is a co-editor of the Istmi literary journal.^[3]

Works

Case perdute, 1976–1985 (il lavoro editoriale,1989).
Istmi e chiuse, 1989–1995 (Marsilio, 1996)
Principio del giorno, 1990–1999 (Garzanti, 2000)
Altre educazioni, 1980–1999 (Crocetti, 2001)
Memoria del chiuso mondo (Quodlibet, 2002)
Ronda dei conversi (Garzanti, 2005)
Poesie (1976–2007) (Garzanti, 2008)
Nessun luogo è elementare (Alberto Tallone Editore, 2010)
Trinità dell'esodo, 2005–2010 (Garzanti, 2011)
Veglie genovesi (Il Canneto Editore, 2013)
Stazioni 1994-2017 (Manni, Lecce, 2018)

Poems by De Signoribus have appeared in the following English translations:

by Christopher Whyte in Lines Review, 1994^[4]
by Emanuel di Pasquale in New Italian Poetry: an anthology, 2006^[5]
by Christopher Whyte and V. Joshua Adams in The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry, 2012^[6]
by Johanna Bishop, Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan in Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature, 2014^[7]
by Richard Dixon in Nuovi Argomenti, 2013;^[8] The Journal of Italian Translation, 2013;^[9] Almost Island, 2014;^[10] Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, 2016;^[11]The Journal of Italian Translation, 2018^[12]

His poetry has also been translated into French^[13] and Swedish.^[14]

References

^ "De Signoribus Eugenio – Scheda autore – Garzanti Libri". Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
^ Preface to De Omvändas Rond, the Swedish translation of Ronda dei conversi published by the Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C.M. Lerici", Stockholm, 2011
^ istmi – Tracce di vita letteraria | semestrale di letteratura e arte | a cura di Eugenio De Signoribus, Enrico Capodaglio, Feliciano Paoli
^ Fourteen Italian Poets for the Twenty-first Century, Lines Review no.130, 1994
^ Gradiva Publications, New York, 2006
^ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012 pp.532-537 ed. Geoffrey Brock
^ Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014 pp.159-171 ed. Pietro Montorfani ISBN 1-892021-53-6
^ Nuovi Argomenti, August 2013
^ The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. VIII no. 2, fall 2013, pp.11 - 21
^ Almost Island Archived 4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Issue no. 11, December 2014
^ Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, pp. 81-85, ed. Franco Buffoni, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0
^ The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. XIII no. 1, Spring 2018, pp.126 - 133
^ Au commencemente du jour, 1990–1999, trans. Thierry Gillyboeuf (La Nerthe édizions, 2011)
^ De Omvändas Rond, 1999–2004, trans. Julian Birbrajer, (Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C. M. Lerici", Stockholm, 2011)

Recipients of the Viareggio Prize

1930s

Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
Corrado Tumiati (1931)
Antonino Foschini (1932)
Achille Campanile (1933)
Raffaele Calzini (1934)
Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
Guelfo Civinini (1937)
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)

1940s

Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)

1950s

Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)

1960s

Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)

1970s

Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)

1980s

Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)

1990s

Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)

2000s

Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)

2010s

Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)

2020s

Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)