Franco Buffoni


Franco Buffoni is an Italian poet, translator and professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. He was born in Gallarate and lives in Rome.
He won the Viareggio Prize for poetry in 2015.
He is editor of the review Testo a Fronte, which he founded in 1989, dedicated to the theory and the practice of literary translation, and editor of the journal Quaderni italiani di poesia contemporanea, published every two years since 1991. He is full professor of literary criticism and comparative literature and has taught for 30 years at the universities of Bergamo, Cassino, IULM Milan, Parma and Turin.

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Poems by Franco Buffoni have appeared in the following English translations:
Translations of his work have also appeared in French, German, Dutch and Spanish.