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Valerio Magrelli is a professor of French literature at the University of Cassino and a frequent contributor to the cultural pages of several Italian dailies. He is the author of four prize-winning poetry collections, and his poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish,and a number of other languages.
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.
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.
Magrelli, Valerio 1957– PERSONAL: Born January 10, 1957, in Rome, Italy; son of Giancinto (an engineer) and Giuliana (a physician) Magrelli; married Maria Letizia Vallo (a lawyer), June 16, 1988; children: Leonardo, Irene.
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).
Valerio Magrelli, now in his mid-forties, is no longer a promising poet but an established one. His debut performance was the most assured and exciting one in Italian letters sinceMontale's Cuttlefish Bones , and expectation levels for him remain high.
