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Jan 1, 2015 · Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet, teacher, translator. An expert in French literature, he is the author of numerous translations, numerous books of poems and prose. His complete bio can be found on parallel at Friends found in translation: https://paralleltexts.wordpress.com/found-in-translation/
May 15, 2016 · Valerio Magrelli is Professor of French Literature at the University of Cassino, which is situated between Rome and Naples. He is the author of six poetry collections for which he has won many prestigious awards, and his poems have been translated into several languages.
Valerio Magrelli was awarded the Premio Lerici Pea in 2010 for five uncollected poems, so rumours of his post-linguistic silence have clearly been exaggerated.
Author, Italian. Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. He is the author of several collections of poetry and innovative works of prose. Translations of his work into English include Vanishing Points (FSG, 2010) and In the Condominium of the Flesh (Parlor Press, 2015).
Io abito il mio cervello. come un tranquillo possidente le sue terre. Per tutto il giorno il mio lavoro. è nel farle fruttare, il mio frutto nel farle lavorare. E prima di dormire. mi affaccio a guardarle. con il pudore dell’uomo. per la sua immagine.
Valerio Magrelli, still in his early forties, a lecturer in French at the University of Cassino, is one of the foremost poets of his generation in Italy, and already the profile of his work stands out securely against a wider span.
Valerio Magrelli was born on January 10, 1954 in Rome, Italy. He studied philosophy in Rome and Paris. He wrote his PhD thesis about French literature. Magrelli translated, among others, the works of Valéry, Verlaine, Debussy in to Italian.
