Mario Biondi (writer)

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Mario Biondi (born 1939) is an Italian writer.

Mario Biondi in Ferghana Valley (Osh - Kyrgyzstan), July 2004.
Mario Biondi in Ferghana Valley (Osh - Kyrgyzstan), July 2004.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Milan and grown up near Lake Como, he worked for sixteen years in publishing (Einaudi, Sansoni, Longanesi), as Chief Press Officer before becoming a freelance author. He has been constantly active in Anglo-American narrative, of which he is also a translator and reviewer for several dailies, weeklies and monthlies. He was a professional novelist for more than twenty years, and a publicist for more than thirty.

In 1973 he published a small collection of poems, Per rompere qualcosa, followed by other poems published on various literary publications or anthologies (Il Verri, Altri termini, Pianura etc).

He has also published thirteen novels and, more recently, two books of travel memories.

The novel Gli occhi di una donna earned the author the 1985 SuperCampiello Award (Premio Campiello).

[edit] Poetry

  • 1968 Conclusioni di Orfeo (In Marcatré n. 37/38/39/40)
  • 1973 Per rompere qualcosa (Volume, Ant. Ed)
  • 1973 Settecento Watt (In Altri Termini)
  • 1974 Jazzparola Suite (In Pianura. Poesia e Prosa degli Anni Settanta. A cura di S. Vassalli. Ant. Ed)
  • 1976 Dissonanza. Poesie d'amore (In Il Verri, Sesta serie, n. 2, settembre)
  • 1976 Varie parole civili. Nove poesie (In Almanacco dello Specchio Mondadori n. 5)
  • 1977 Nuova ballata per Newyorkville n. 200 (In North n. 5/6, marzo)
  • 1980 Trittico (Translated in English on Altro Polo, Italian Poetry today. Editor R. Perrotta, Sydney)
  • Poems by Mario Biondi are out of print and can be read (in Italian) only on the relevant page of his Web Site

[edit] Novels

  • 1975 Il lupo bambino (Marsilio)
  • 1981 La sera del giorno (Bompiani)
  • 1982 Il cielo della mezzaluna (Longanesi)
  • 1985 Gli occhi di una donna (id., Premio Campiello)
  • 1986 La civetta sul comò (id.)
  • 1988 Un amore innocente (Rizzoli)
  • 1990 Crudele amore (id.)
  • 1992 Il destino di un uomo (id.)
  • 1993 Due bellissime signore (id.)
  • 1995 Un giorno e per tutta la vita (id.)
  • 1998 Una porta di luce (Longanesi)
  • 1999 Codice Ombra (Longanesi)
  • 2006 Destino (TEA)

[edit] Books of travels

Mario Biondi at the huge Buddha (71 mts) in Leshan, Sichuan, China, July 2006 (Selfportrait)
Mario Biondi at the huge Buddha (71 mts) in Leshan, Sichuan, China, July 2006 (Selfportrait)
  • 2003 Güle güle. Parti con un sorriso (Ponte alle Grazie)
  • 2005 Strada bianca per i Monti del Cielo. Vagabondo sulla Via della Seta (id.)

[edit] Translations

He has translated 71 works mostly by American and English authors, including Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Edith Wharton, Anne Tyler, Peter Carey and Nobels Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Golding, Wole Soyinka and Orhan Pamuk (from the American edition of Kara Kitab - The Black Book as expressely requested by Pamuk to his first Italian publisher, Frassinelli).

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