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Pierluigi Cappello

ピエルルイジ・カッペッロ

Pierluigi Cappello

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1967-08-08 (Gemona del Friuli)
Died
2017-10-01 (Italy) age 50
Nationality
イタリア人, Italian
Languages
Italian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Gemona del Friuli (birth) → Chiusaforte (raised, prefab community)

Career

Occupations
Poet
Active Years
1992-2017

Awards

Viareggio Prize
2010
Work: Mandate a dire all'imperatore
Category: poetry
Organization: Viareggio-Rèpaci
Result: winner
Premio Montale
2004
Work: Dittico
Category: poetry
Result: winner
Premio Bagutta
2006
Work: Assetto Di Volo
Category: poetry
Result: winner
Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa
2006
Work: Assetto Di Volo
Category: poetry
Result: winner
Premio Terzani
Work: Questa libertà
Category: prose
Result: winner
Raiziss de/Palchi Fellowship
2015
Work: Go Tell It to the Emperor
Category: translation
Organization: Academy of American Poets
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mandate a dire all'imperatore

2010 Poetry

Poetry collection. Winner of Viareggio Prize.

Dittico

2004 Poetry

Poetry collection. Premio Montale winner.

Assetto Di Volo

2006 Poetry

Poetry collection. Premio Bagutta and Pisa award winner.

Questa libertà

Prose

Prose work. Premio Terzani winner.

Azzurro Elementare. Poesie 1992-2010

2013 Poetry

Selected poems.

Stato Di Quiete

2017 Poetry

Collection of thirty new poems.

Health

  • 1976 Friuli earthquake victim
    1976年5月6日
    Family relocated to Austrian prefab community, lived there most of life.
  • Motorbike accident
    16歳時 (1983年頃)
    Wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life.

Legacy

Italian poet who won Viareggio Prize and others. English translations awarded Raiziss/de Palchi. Beneficiary of Legge Bacchelli in 2014.

Trivia

  • Victim of 1976 Friuli earthquake with family, relocated to prefab.
  • Motorbike crash at 16 left him wheelchair-bound.
  • Named beneficiary of Legge Bacchelli in 2014 for lifetime support.