Event Details
Thu, September 26, 2024
12:30 – 14:00
VILLA SASSETTI
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
(For NYU Florence Students only)
followed by a poetry reading. Moderated by poet Elisa Biagini, NYU Florence
(followed by light lunch)
Featured Biographies
Huang Fan
POET
Huang Fan is a leading poet in China. His books in Chinese include Insomniac Moon, Elegies of Nanjing, The Eleventh Commandment, The Floating Colors, Until Youth Disappears, Girls School Teacher, Wandering China, One Inch Master, Museum of Human Nature and Empire of Imagery etc. ‘Middle Age’ was included in One Hundred Poems for One Hundred Years of Chinese Modern Poetry, and the editor of United Daily News called him the Mainland poet of most interest to the Taiwanese reader. When his novel The Eleventh Commandment was serialised in Sina.com.cn’s literary section, it received over 3 million hits and was rated one of two “must-read” novels for young people to read. He has won numerous prizes, including the Boao International Poetry Prize, the China Good Poetry Prize, the Beijing Literary Prize, the Jinling Literary Prize, the Zhongshan Literary Prize, the West Literary Prize, the Fangcao Biennial Top Ten Prize for Poetry, the Zijin Mountain Literature Prize, and the Writer’s Golden Prize for Short Story. Appearances include the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Macau Literary Festival, Havana International Festival of Poetry, and Singapore World Book Day Literature under an April Sky. Translations of his poetry in English has been featured in Poetry, Push Open the Window (Copper Canyon 2011), and A Public Space etc. and has been praised by English-language language poets aesthetically diverse as Robert Hass, Forrest Gander, Ron Padgett, and J.H. Prynne. Besides English, his works have been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian, Korean, Greek, and Farsi.
Allison Grimaldi Donahue
POET
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (Connecticut, USA 1984) is the author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and the co-author of On Endings (Delere Press, 2019). She is translator of Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait (Divided, 2021) and Blown Away (Fomite, 2021) by vito m. bonito. Her writing and translations have appeared in places like The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, BOMB, NERO and Tripwire, and she has recently performed at Guggenheim Venice, Kunsthalle Bern, Cabaret Voltaire, MACRO, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca and Short Theatre Rome. She holds an MA in Italian literature from Middlebury College and a PhD in Philosophy from European Graduate School. She lives in Bologna.