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Edition 35 (2000) Winner
Edoardo Sanguineti
エドアルド・サングイネーティ
Edoardo Sanguineti
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1930-12-09 （Genoa, Kingdom of Italy）
- Died
- 2010-05-18 （Genoa, Italian Republic） age 79
- Nationality
- Italian
- Languages
- Italian
- Religion
- Atheist
- Residence History
- Genoa, Italy (birthplace and longtime residence)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, essayist, translator, academic, politician
- Active Years
- 1956-2010
- Affiliations
- Italian Communist Party (elected on their list as independent)
- Influenced By
- James Joyce, Molière, William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Selected Greek and Latin authors
Awards & Nominations
Bagutta Prize
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Works
Major Works
Laborintus
1956 PoetrySanguineti's early poetry collection characterized by a labyrinthine structure and experimental language play; anticipated the poetic experimentalism of the 1960s.
linguistic experimentationlabyrinthine structuremodernism
Capriccio italiano
1963 PoetryA poetry collection from the 1960s containing poems that engage with Italian themes and musical rhythms.
Italian culturerhythmlanguage manipulation
Il Giuoco dell'Oca
1967 Poetry / Experimental literatureA strongly experimental work that explores the possibilities of poetry through wordplay and avant-garde techniques.
Neo-avant-gardewordplaystructural experimentation
Opus metricum
1960 PoetryA collection containing Laborintus and Erotopaegnia; notable for experiments with meter and form.
formal experimentationmeterpoetic fragments
Triperuno
1964 Poetry / CollectionA compilation of works that encompass his avant-garde poetry; notable for composite text constructions.
avant-garde poetrytextual layering
Natural Stories #1 (Storie Naturali #1)
1971 Short stories / FictionA short story collection published in Italy in 1971; an English translation was published in Toronto in 1998.
short fictionnarrative experimentation
Translations
- Natural Stories #1 — translated into English (Guernica, Toronto, 1998)
Bibliography
- Laborintus (1956)
- Opus metricum (1960)
- Capriccio italiano (1963)
- Triperuno (1964)
- Il Giuoco dell'Oca (1967)
- Storie Naturali #1 (1971)
- J. Joyce, Poesie (translator, 1961)
Translations by Author
- J. Joyce, Poesie (selected poems by James Joyce), Mondadori, 1961 (translation)
Translations of Works
- Storie Naturali #1 → translated as Natural Stories #1, Guernica (Toronto), 1998
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimental, avant-garde poeticsfragmentary and polyphonic textslanguage-play techniques
- Recurring Motifs
- labyrinthsquestions of language and formpolitical and social themes (often allegorical)
Health
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abdominal aneurysm (acute)2010Underwent emergency surgery for an abdominal aneurysm in 2010 and subsequently died.
Legacy
Edoardo Sanguineti is regarded as a major Italian avant-garde poet and critic of the second half of the 20th century. As a central figure of the Neoavanguardia movement, his poetry, translations, and political engagement significantly impacted experimental developments in Italian-language poetry.
Academic Societies
- Gruppo 63 (movement)
Archives
- Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno (burial site / records)
Trivia
- Served as a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1979 to 1983 (elected as an independent on the Italian Communist Party list).
- Best-known work includes Laborintus, first published in 1956.
- Worked as a translator of authors including James Joyce and Bertolt Brecht.
- Known to be an atheist.