Franco Buffoni

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Franco Buffoni
Born1948 (age 7576)
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)poet, translator, professor
Known forprofessor at Bergamo, Cassino, IULM Milan, Parma, and Turin universities
Notable workfounded 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]

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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

Novels

Poems by Franco Buffoni have appeared in the following English translations:

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

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References

  1. Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, 2016, Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016
  2. "Home". francobuffoni.it.
  3. Poetry, December 2007, vol. CXCI, no. 3, Mt Morris (IL) USA
  4. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012 ed. Geoffrey Brock
  5. Blakesley, Jacob S. D. (January 2014). Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible. ISBN   978-1-4426-4642-1.
  6. ed. Pietro Montorfani ISBN   1-892021-53-6
  7. Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, ISBN   978-88-99773-09-0
  8. "Home". francobuffoni.it.