Max Vergara Poeti
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| Max Vergara Poeti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 March 1983 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer, translator, essayist, critic |
| Nationality | Colombian - Italian |
| Genres | Fiction |
Max Vergara Poeti (complete name Massimo Christian Vergara Poeti-Marentini) (born March 4, 1983) is a Colombian-Italian writer, essayist and translator.
Vergara Poeti-Marentini was born in Bogotá, Colombia from a Colombian father and an Italian mother. He studied at Westminster School, London, and at Georgetown University, where he obtained a degree in law. As a child he studied composition and aesthetics at Juilliard while painting at The Art Students League of New York. Under the guide of Louis Griffel, director of the Cape Cod School of Art, he learned impressionism and the new modern techniques, and later attended summer courses at the Cape Cod Art Association, at Barnstable, Massachusetts. Completely devoted to literature since then, he writes in Spanish, Italian and English.
Considered by critics as Corey C. Shouse[1], Jacques Gillard and H. Hoyos[2] as one of the best writers of his generation, his first short stories appeared when he was only 16, entitled El Mar (The Sea), which was also finalist in an important contest in Europe at its moment. This work was followed by a small poetry book, Las Flores Áureas (The Golden Blossoms) that was published in a private edition sponsored by the Italian government and UNESCO.
Vergara Poeti has written essays, interviews and reports with his name and pen name for important newspapers in Europe and Latin America, as El Tiempo, Clarín (newspaper) in Argentina and Corriere della Sera. In the United States, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, World Literature Today and The Paris Review.
As translator he has published versions in Italian and Spanish of poems from authors as Robert Frost, Angelos Sikelianos and Odysseus Elytis, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer and the Mexican poet and writer José Gorostiza.
Max Vergara Poeti currently lives between Italy and the French Riviera and writes in a regular basis for Libro de Notas in Spain, Letralia in Venezuela and Adentro y Afuera, his own writing project. He is a member assistant to the board of Accademia Teatro alla Scala ('borsa Franco Corelli' for foreign students), counselor to Académie de Musique (Fondation Prince Rainier III) in Monaco and an international member of Fondation Princesse Grace.
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[edit] Works
- El Mar. El Tucán, México. 1999 (finalista Premio Internacional Melilla)
- Fiori Dorati (Las Flores Áureas). Fondazione Europea per la Cultura / Bollati Boringhieri Editore SRL. 2002
- Saggi e Satire. Accademia Partenoppea, Napoli / Tirrenia Stampatori, Torino. 2005
- Poesía reunida (Poesie). El Tucán, México. 2006 - Tirrenia Stampatori, Torino. 2007
[edit] Translations
- Seis poemas de Robert Frost. Crónica, Bogotá. 2002
- Tomas Tranströmer. El Bronce, Santiago. 2004
- Poesie di José Gorostiza. Accademia Partenoppea, Napoli. 2005
- Primera poesía. Odysseas Elytis. El Tucán, México. 2007
- Angelos Sikelianos: poesie dell'amore. Tirrenia Stampatori, Torino. 2007
[edit] Notes
- ^ Shouse, Corey Clay (2002) The unwriting of the lettered city: Fiction, fragmentation and postmodernity in Colombia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, United States -- Pennsylvania. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from Dissertations & Theses: A&I database. (Publication No. AAT 3078879).
- ^ GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ'S SUBLIME VIOLENCE AND THE ECLIPSE OF COLOMBIAN LITERATURE. Chasqui, 35(2), 3-20. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from ProQuest Humanities Module database. (Document ID: 1182841061).
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Adentro y Afuera
- (Spanish) Libro de Notas
- (Spanish) Letralia
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Vergara Poeti, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Colombian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983-03-04 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bogotá |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
