Franco Buffoni

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)

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]
by Richard Dixon and Justin Vitiello in Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–43^[7]

Translations of his work have also appeared in French, German, Dutch and Spanish.^[8]

References

↑ Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, 2016, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016
↑ http://www.francobuffoni.it
↑ Poetry, December 2007, vol. CXCI, no. 3, Mt Morris (IL) USA
↑ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012 ed. Geoffrey Brock
↑ 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
↑ http://www.francobuffoni.it

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 (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)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 79042536 LCCN: n78062692 ISNI: 0000 0001 0918 6663 GND: 124999271 SUDOC: 028333241 BNF: cb120190464 (data) ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\026678

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