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Luigi Fontanella was born on 1943 in Italy, is an An italian male poet. Discover Luigi Fontanella's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Luigi Fontanella Net Worth
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Luigi Augusto Fontanella (born 1943 Salerno, Italy) is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
He was a student of Giacomo Debenedetti and after he graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome, he obtained a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, (where from 1976 to 1978, he held the position of Fulbright Fellow), and at Wellesley College.
He is currently Professor Emeritus of Italian Language and Literature at Stony Brook University.
He is the Founder and President of IPA (Italian Poetry in America), as well as the Senior Editor, for the publishing house Olschki, of Gradiva: An International Journal of Poetry, and Chief Editor of the publishing house of Gradiva Publications, which has recently received the National Prize for the Translation from the Ministry of Culture and the Catullo Prize.
In 2005 he was appointed Knight by the President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
He chairs the International Poetry Prize "Gradiva", founded in 2012.
He has published many collections of poetry, numerous essays and specialized articles, several volumes of literary criticism, and works of fiction, as well as being the author of screenplays, translations and theatrical works.
He is literary critic of the newspaper "America Oggi" and collaborates with major national and international literary magazines.
Cinematographer and playwright, he worked in the film Casanova by Federico Fellini.
In 2014 he was awarded the Premio Nazionale Frascati Poesia alla Carriera for the poetry collection Disunita ombra (Archinto, RCS, 2013).
In 2015 he won the Pascoli Prize and the Viareggio-Giuria Prize for the volume of poems L'adolescenza e la notte (Passigli, 2015), subsequently translated into French, English, and German.
Luigi Fontanella lives on Long Island (New York), and in Florence, Italy.
He is the father of Emma Fontanella, professional Pastry Chef based in Rome and in New York (YouTube: Emma's Goodies).
Complete bibliography for poetry in La Poesia di Luigi Fontanella, edited by B. Vincenzi, Cosenza: Macabor, 2018, ISBN 978-88-85582-17-0.
Contributions by S. Aglieco, S. Aman, A. Carrera, S. D'Amaro, M. De Angelis, C. Di Lieto, G. Ferroni, F. Filia, B. Garavelli, E. Grasso, F. La Porta, C. Mauro, I. Mugnaini, A. Paganardi, G. Pontiggia, E. Rega, R. Urraro, S. Violante.
