Franco Buffoni
Italian poet
Franco Buffoni | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Gallarate, Lombardy, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | poet, translator, professor |
| Known for | professor at Bergamo, Cassino, IULM Milan, Parma, and Turin universities |
| Notable work | founded Testo a Fronte |
| Awards | Viareggio Prize (2015) |
Franco Buffoni (1948) is an Italian poet, translator and professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. He was born in Gallarate (Lombardy) and lives in Rome.[1]
He won the Viareggio Prize for poetry in 2015.
He is editor of the review Testo a Fronte, which he founded in 1989, dedicated to the theory and the practice of literary translation, and editor of the journal Quaderni italiani di poesia contemporanea, published every two years since 1991. He is full professor of literary criticism and comparative literature and has taught for 30 years at the universities of Bergamo, Cassino, IULM Milan, Parma and Turin.[2]
Selected bibliography
Poetry
- Suora Carmelitana (Guanda, 1997)
- Il Profilo del Rosa (Mondadori, 2000)
- Guerra (Mondadori, 2005)
- Noi e loro (Donzelli, 2008)
- Roma (Guanda, 2009)
- Jucci (Mondadori, 2014 - winner of the Viareggio Prize, 2015)
- Avrei fatto la fine di Turing (Donzelli, 2015)
- Pettorine arancioni e altre poesie (Carteggi Letterari, 2016)
Novels
- Più luce, padre (luca sossella, 2006)
- Zamel (Marcos y Marcos, 2009)
- Il servo di Byron (Fazi, 2012)
- La casa di via Palestro (Marcos y Marcos, 2014)
Poems by Franco Buffoni have appeared in the following English translations:
- by Geoffrey Brock in Poetry, December 2007, p. 234 [3]
- by Michael Palma, Moira Egan, Damiano Abeni and Geoffrey Brock in The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry, 2012, pp. 538–541[4]
- by Jacob Blakesley in Modern Italian Poets, (Univ.Toronto Press, 2014) pp. 193–218[5]
- by Richard Dixon in Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature, (Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014) pp. 189–203;[6] Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–42;[7] Journal of Italian Translation, Volume XI, no.2, fall 2016, pp. 171–195.
- by Justin Vitiello in Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, (FUIS, 2016) pp. 43
Translations of his works have also appeared in French, German, Dutch and Spanish.[8]
References
- ^ Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, 2016, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016
- ^ "Home". francobuffoni.it.
- ^ Poetry, December 2007, vol. CXCI, no. 3, Mt Morris (IL) USA
- ^ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012 ed. Geoffrey Brock
- ^ Blakesley, Jacob S. D. (January 2014). Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible. ISBN 978-1-4426-4642-1.
- ^ ed. Pietro Montorfani ISBN 1-892021-53-6
- ^ Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, ISBN 978-88-99773-09-0
- ^ "Home". francobuffoni.it.
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
- 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)
Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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