Antonio D'Alfonso

Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than sixty books (including translations) and has made five feature films. Born in 1953, he is the founder of Guernica Editions which he managed for thirty-three years before passing it on to new owners in 2010. For his writings, he won the Trillium Award, the Bressani Award. His film Bruco won the New York Independent Film Award. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. In 2016, he received a Honorary Doctorate from Athabasca University. His new film, TATA (Daddy), was released in July 2020. The Two-Headed Man: Collected Poems 1970-2020 was published in July 2020. He has started on youtube a series of Conversations with artists and producers. His essays of In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity (1996), Gambling With Failure (2005), and Poetica del plurilinguismo (2015) offer a unique perspective on decentralized identities. His books have been translated in French, Italian, Estonian, and Portuguese.

In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions. He passed on the press in 2010.

New books by Antonio D'Alfonso are The Italian Canadian Writer (978-1-77171-534-8), Outside Looking In (978-1-77171-482-2), and Vanno pił veloce di me (978-1-0690105-0-6). 19th Avenue (978-1-0690105-4-4), I could have been a contender (978-1-955995-09-2)

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