Antonella Anedda
Antonella Anedda (born December 22, 1955) is an Italian writer and educator.[1]
Of Sardinian and Corsican descent,[1] she was born in Rome and was educated there and in Venice,[2] receiving a degree in the history of modern art from Sapienza University of Rome. Anedda received a scholarship from the Cini Foundation. She worked for the Museo nazionale delle arti e tradizioni popolari in Rome and taught at the University of Siena and the University of Lugano. Anedda has also participated in radio programs for Rai 3. Her work has appeared in various magazines such as alfabeta2, Rinascita, Ipso facto and Doppiozero and she has contributed articles on art criticism to various magazines and newspapers.[3]
Her first volume of poetry Residenze invernali (1992) received the Premio Sinisgalli, the Premio Diego Valeri and the Tratti Poetry Prize. Her collection Notti di pace occidental (2000) received the Premio Internazionale Montale for poetry. Her work has also been included in various anthologies and has been translated into various languages including Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Spanish, French and English.[3]
Anedda translated some prose by Philippe Jaccottet for the volume Appunti per una semina (1994).[3]
Selected works[2][3]
- Cosa sono gli anni, essays & short stories (1997)
- Nomi distanti, translated works by Ovid, Sappho, Philippe Jaccottet and others (1998)
- La luce delle cose, essays and short stories (2000)
- Il catalogo della gioia, poetry (2003)
- Don’t Waste my Beauty/Non guastare la mia bellezza, works by Barbara Carle, co-translator and co-editor, (2006)
- Salva con nome, poetry (2012), received the Viareggio Prize, the Premio Pascoli and the Premio Alghero Donna
References
- 1 2 "Antonella Anedda, Avant l’heure du dîner". Terres de femmes (in French).
- 1 2 "Antonella Anedda". Poetry International Rotterdam.
- 1 2 3 4 "Anedda Angioy, Antonella". Università della Svizzera italiana.
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