Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 August 1953)Filippo Salvatore, ''Ancient Memories, Modern Identities''.

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, 1999. . is a

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writer, editor, publisher, and filmmaker, best known as the founder of

Biography

Antonio D'Alfonso was born in

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into an Italian-Canadian family. He grew up speaking Italian and attended both English and French schools and became trilingual. He earned a BA from Loyola College (

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) and a MA from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

. In 1978 he founded

in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2009.

Literary awards

* 2000: ''Fabrizio's Passion'' won the Bressani Award.Gambling with Failure (review)
Project MUSE - Gambling with Failure (review)
accessdate: March 27, 2016 * 2003: ''La passione di Fabrizio'' won the ''Internazionale emigrazione'' in Italy.Egidio Marchese – Ti sei occupata e hai scritto varie volte di Antonio D'Alfonso

accessdate: March 27, 2016

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