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Italian poet and translator
Jolanda Insana
Born 18 May 1937 (1937-05-18 ) Died 27 October 2016 (2016-10-28 ) (aged 79)
Jolanda Insana (18 May 1937 – 27 October 2016) was an Italian poet and translator.
Born in Messina , in 1968 Insana moved to Rome where she graduated in Ancient Literature with a thesis on Erinna 's The Distaff . Active as a translator of classical and contemporary authors, she debuted as a poet in 1977, with the collection Sciarra amara ("Bitter Harvest"). In 2002 she won the Viareggio Prize for poetry for La stortura .[ 1] [ 2]
Giovanni Raboni described Insana's poetic style as "visionary concreteness".[ 1]
The first full-length collection of Insana’s poetry in English was translated by Catherine Theis and published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2024 as Slashing Sounds (Fendenti fonici ; Società di poesia, Milan, 1982).[ 3]
Awards received by Jolanda Insana
Single Prize for Literature Special Jury Prize
Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta , Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey , José Donoso , Northrop Frye , Jorge Semprún , Wole Soyinka , Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum , Fan Boaci , Wang Huanbao , Shi Peide , Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong , Xiao Xue , Yu Yougqnan , Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First narrative work First poetic work Prize for foreign literature Prize for foreign poetry First work
Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri , Laura Mancinelli (1981)
Jolanda Insana (1982)
Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
Aldo Busi (1984)
Elisabetta Rasy , Dario Villa (1985)
Marco Lodoli , Angelo Mainardi (1986)
Marco Ceriani , Giovanni Giudice (1987)
Edoardo Albinati , Silvana La Spina (1988)
Andrea Canobbio , Romana Petri (1990)
Anna Cascella (1991)
Marco Caporali , Nelida Milani (1992)
Silvana Grasso , Giulio Mozzi (1993)
Ernesto Franco (1994)
Roberto Deidier (1995)
Giuseppe Quatriglio , Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
Alba Donati (1998)
Paolo Febbraro (1999)
Evelina Santangelo (2000)
Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
Giovanni Bergamini , Simona Corso (2003)
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
Francesco Fontana (2006)
Paolo Fallai (2007)
Luca Giachi (2008)
Carlo Carabba (2009)
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Foreign author Italian Author
Alberto Moravia (1982)
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati , Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini , Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri , Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
Andrea Camilleri (2002)
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
Maurizio Bettini , Giorgio Montefoschi , Nelo Risi (2004)
pr. Raffaele Nigro , sec. Maurizio Cucchi , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
pr. Paolo Di Stefano , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
pr. Mario Fortunato , sec. Toni Maraini , ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
pr. Andrea Bajani , sec. Antonio Scurati , ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
pr. Mario Desiati , sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
pr. Lorenzo Pavolini , sec. Roberto Cazzola , ter. (2010)
pr. Eugenio Baroncelli , sec. Milo De Angelis , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
pr. Edoardo Albinati , sec. Paolo Di Paolo , ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
pr. Andrea Canobbio , sec. Valerio Magrelli , ter. Walter Siti (2013)
pr. Irene Chias , sec. Giorgio Falco , ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
pr. Nicola Lagioia , sec. Letizia Muratori , ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
pr. Marcello Fois , sec. Emanuele Tonon , ter. Romana Petri (2016)
pr. Stefano Massini , sec. Alessandro Zaccuri , ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
"Five Continents" Award "Palermo bridge for Europe" Award Ignazio Buttitta Award Supermondello Special award of the President Poetry prize Translation Award Identity and dialectal literatures award Essays Prize Mondello for Multiculturality Award Mondello Youths Award "Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa Prize for Literary Criticism Award for best motivation Special award for travel literature Special Award 40 Years of Mondello
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