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Max Vergara Poeti (born in 1983) is an
Italian-Colombian writer and translator.
Biography
Massimo Vergara Poeti-Marentini was born in Turin, Italy, but grew up in South America. He attended Westminster
School, London, and
completed law studies at Georgetown University. As a
child, he also obtained degrees in composition and musical
aesthetics from Juilliard, painting from The
Art Students League of New York and courses with Louis Griffel,
director of the Cape Cod School of Art, who
taught him impressionism and the new modern techniques, which were
later mastered at the Cape Cod Art Association, in Barnstable, Massachussetts[1]
Despite he has written under pen names, he is regarded by
critics as Corey C. Shouse[2],
Jacques Gillard and H. Hoyos[3] to be
one of the most precocious and original voices of his generation,
his first short stories appeared when he was only 16, published in
newspapers and magazines[4]. El
Mar (The Sea), a story of a child whose dying mother is the
only thing between him and the realization of his wish to see the
sea for the first time, won him acclaim and became part of the
selection of a young literature list in Europe before it was
translated and included in selections in Russian, Czech, Greek,
Portuguese and Finnish[5]. This
work was followed by a small poetry book, Las Flores
Áureas (The Golden Blossoms) that was published in an edition
sponsored by the Italian government and UNESCO[6].
Max Vergara Poeti has written articles and interviews for El
Tiempo, Clarín (newspaper) in Argentina and Corriere
della Sera. In the United States, he has been contributor to
World Literature Today. He’s
best known for his translations, and has published versions in
Italian, English and Spanish of Robert Frost, Angelos
Sikelianos and Odysseus Elytis, Swedish poet Tomas
Tranströmer and the Mexican poet and writer José
Gorostiza. He is also the authorized translator in Spanish of
Nobel Prize Winner Patrick White. Profesionally, he is
currently Art Counselor of Fondation Princesse Grace in Monaco,
and Chief of the Foreign Affairs Office of Fondazione Alice Asburgo
Lorena in Turin. He is
now resident in Italy.
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
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
Notes
- ^
Mattalia, S. El viaje en la literatura hispanoamericana: el
espiritu colombiano. VII Congreso Internacional de la AEELH.
Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2008. ISBN: 848489391X; and Balderston,
D. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean
Literature, 1900-2003. Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0415306876
- ^
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)
- ^
O’Bryen, Rory. Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary
Colombian Culture: Spectres of La Violencia. Tamesis Books, 2008.
ISBN: 1855661780
- ^
Fontanella, Luigi. La parola transfuga. Scrittori italiani in
America. Cadmo, 2007. ISBN: 8879232827
- ^
In note: D. “Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and
Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003”
See also
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Vergara Poeti, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
|
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
Colombian-Italian writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
1983 |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH |
|
| PLACE OF
DEATH |
|
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