Franco Buffoni (1948) is an Italian poet, translator and professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. He was born in

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) and lives in

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. He won the

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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.

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 Geoffrey Brock (born October 19, 1964) is an American poet and translator. Since 2006 he has taught creative writing and literary translation at the University of Arkansas, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. Biography Brock is the ...

in ''Poetry'', December 2007, p. 234 * by

Michael Palma Michael Palma (born 1945 Bronx, New York) is an American poet and translator. Life He lives with his wife in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He is on the board of the Italian Poetry Society of America. He has read at the Italian Cultural Institute. Awa ...

, Moira Egan, Damiano Abeni and Geoffrey Brock in ''The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry'', 2012, pp. 538–541 * by Jacob Blakesley in ''Modern Italian Poets'', (Univ.Toronto Press, 2014) pp. 193–218 * by Richard Dixon in ''Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature'', (Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014) pp. 189–203; ''Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology'', (FUIS, 2016) pp. 39–42; ''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.

References

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