Mar. 18 – “For me, writing an endecasillabo with English words that have been italianised, with movie titles, trying to rhyme Alba Parietti with insects and limbo with status symbols… this is a way to get in and out of the rut of tradition,” comments Valerio Magrelli, poet, translator and literary critic who has found fame thanks to his lightness and irony. Magrelli is now ready to enchant the Swedish public: next Saturday, he will be a guest of the World Poetry Day, held in Malmö, which brings together eight poets from different countries. A few days later, on March 24, the author will participate in a meeting organized by the “CM Lerici”Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. The appointment is at 6pm at the headquarters of the IIC. Born in Rome in 1957, Magrelli published his first collection of poems, “Ora serrata retinae”, in 1980. The next collection, “Nature and venature” (1987), won the Viareggio Prize. This was followed by “Esercizi di tiptologia” (1992), “Didascalie per la lettura di giornale” (1999), and “Disturbi del sistema binario” (2006), which confirmed Magrelli’s sensitivity “in making lyrical the contemporary condition,” as the Treccani entry dedicated to the author highlights. In 2003, Magrelli made his debut as novelist with “Nel condominio di carne.” Magrelli was Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Pisa and then at the University of Cassino. In 1993, Magrelli took over the direction of the trilingual Einaudi series “Scrittori tradotti da scrittori”, receiving from the President of the Republic the National Prize for Translation (1996). (Red)
