Valero magrelli biography

He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at the University of Pisa and.
Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet.
Valerio Magrelli (Rome, 1957) is the author of four poetry collections, for which he has won the Mondello Prize, the Viareggio Prize for poetry.

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Valerio Magrelli

Biography

Valerio Magrelli (Rome, 1957) is the author of four poetry collections, for which he has won the Mondello Prize, the Viareggio Prize for poetry, and the Montale Prize. In November 2003 the Accademia dei Lincei awarded him the Premio Antonio Feltrinelli. A professor of French literature at the University of Cassino, he is also a frequent contributor to the cultural pages of several Italian dailies. His poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish and a number of other languages.

VALERIO MAGRELLI, now in his early forties, represents, to this reader at least, a new moment in Italian poetry. In the good-natured ease with which he shows off his mastery of the traditional tools of his trade, and the elegant way he lets the reader know he knows that writing is about writing, he advertises his membership in an international con-fraternity whose current English-language practi-tioners include Mark Strand and, especially, Paul Muldoon. Magrelli, a scholar of French literature and an experienced translator, is obsessed by the "translation" involve

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Poems by Valerio Magrelli

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Ten poems written in a month
is not much even if this one
becomes the eleventh.
Neither will the subjects differ,
rather there is only one subject
whose subject is the subject, like now.
This is to say how much
stays away from the page
and knocks and cannot enter,
nor should it. Writing
is not a mirror, instead
it is the grainy glass of showers,
where the body crumbles
and only its shadow shines through
indistinguishable but real.
And the one who washes cannot be recognized
except by his gestures.
Therefore how important it is
to see beyond the watermark,
unless I am the counterfeiter
and the watermark alone is my work.

(1980)

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It is specially in weeping
that the soul manifests
its presence
and by a secret contraction
transforms sorrow into water.
The first budding of the spirit
is therefore in the tear,
a word transparent and slow.
Following this elementary alchemy
truly thought turns itself into substance
like a stone wall or an arm.
And there is no turbulence in the liquid,
except t

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Valerio Magrelli

Recipients of the Mondello Prize

Single Prize for LiteratureSpecial Jury Prize

Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)

First narrative workFirst poetic workPrize for foreign literaturePrize for foreign poetryFirst work

Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli