Fabio Pusterla (born 1957, in Mendrisio, Switzerland) is a Swiss translator and writer in Italian.
Pusterla studied in the University of Pavia and is a teacher in Lugano and at the University of Geneva. He has translated French poetry to Italian, including Philippe Jaccottet, Antoine Emaz and Corinna Bille. Pusterla has won the Swiss Schiller Prize and the Gottfried Keller Preis, 2007. He was editor of the review "Idra" (1988–1998).
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