Antonio D'Alfonso
Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 Aug 1953)[1] is an Italian-Canadian writer,[2] editor, publisher and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions.[1]
Literary awards
- L'autre rivage (1987): finalist for the Prix Émile-Nelligan.
- 1998: L'apostrophe qui me scinde: finalist of the Prix Saint Sulpice.
- 2000: Fabrizio's Passion: wins the Bressani Award.
- 2002: Comment ça se passe: finalist of the Trillium Award.
- 2003: La passione di Fabrizio wins Internazionale emigrazione in Italy.
- 2005: Un vendredi du mois d'août wins The Ontario Trillium Award. (27 Avril 2005)
- 2008: L'aimé wins the Christine Dimitriu Van Saanen Award (Le Salon du Livre de Toronto).
Books
- La chanson du shaman à Sedna (poems, self-published, 1973)
- Queror (poems, Guernica Editions, 1979) 2-89135-000-6
- Black Tongue (poems, Guernica Editions, 1983) 0-919349-07-2
- Quêtes: Textes d'auteurs italo-québécois (anthology, avec Fulvio Caccia, Guernica Editions, 1983) 2-89135-006-5 (anthology)
- Voix off: Textes de dix poètes anglophones au Québec (anthology, Guernica Editions, 1985) 2-89135-009-X (anthology)
- The Clarity of Voices by Philippe Haeck (prose poems, translator, Guernica Editions, 1985) 0-919349-56-0
- The Other Shore (prose and poems, Guernica Editions, 1986, 1988) 0-919349-66-8/0-920717-32-2
- L'autre rivage (prose and poems, translation of The Other Shore, VLB éditeur, 1987) 2-89005-248-6 Finaliste du Prix Emile-Nelliagn.
- L'Amour panique (prose poems, Lèvres Urbaines, 1988) ISSN 0823-5112
- Avril ou L'anti-passion (novel, VLB éditeur, 1990) 2-89005-405-5
- Julia (long prose poem, L'édition du Silence, 1992) 2-920180-25-8
- Panick Love (prose poems, translation of L'Amour panique, Guernica Editions, 1992) 0-920717-63-2
- Fabrizio's Passion (novel, Guernica, 1995) 1-55071-023-0
- In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity (essays, Guernica, 1996) 1-55071-016-8
- The Films of Jacques Tati (by Michel Chion, translation, Guernica, 1997).
- L'apostrophe qui me scinde (poetry, Le Noroît, 1998). 2-89018-398-X. Finaliste du Prix Saint Sulpice.
- Duologue: On Culture and Identity (with Pasquale Verdicchio) (essay, Guernica, 1998). 1-55071-072-9
- L'autre rivage (poetry, Le Noroît, 1999) 2-89018-438-2
- En Italiques: Réflexions sur l'ethnicité (essays, Balzac, 2000). 2-921468-21-2
- La paysage qui bouge (translator of the poems by Pasquale Verdicchio, Le Noroît, 2000) 2-89018-435-8
- Fabrizio's Passion (novel, Guernica, 2000) 1-55071-082-6. The Bressani Award 2002.
- Comment ça se passe (poetry, Le Noroît, 2001). Finaliste du Prix Trillium.
- La passione di Fabrizio. (Traduit par Antonello Lombardo). Iannone Editore. Italia: Isernia, 2002.) The Premio internzaionale Emigrazione, 2003.
- Getting on with Politics (poetry, Exile Editions, 2002.)
- On Order and Things (by Stefan Psenak, translator, Guernica, 2003)
- Dreaming Our Space (by Marguerite Andersen, translator, Guernica, 2003)
- Antigone (Lyricalmyrical Editions, 2004) (verse play)
- Un vendredi du mois d'août (novel, Leméac, 2004), finalist for the Prix Ringuet. The Trillium Award.
- Bruco (Lyricalmyrical Editions, 2005) (verse play)
- En Italiques: Réflexions sur l'ethnicité (essais, L'Interligne, 2005).
- Gambling with Failure (essays, Exile, 2005)
- Un homme de trop (poetry, Noroît, 2005)
- One Friday in August (novel, Exile, 2005)
- The Blueness of Light (by Louise Dupré, translator, Guernica, 2005)
- Etnilisuse kaitseks. Translated in Estonian by Reet Sool. Tartu Ulikooli Kirjastus, 2006. (essays)
- The World Forgotten (by Paul Bélanger, translator, Guernica 2005)
- L'aimé (novel, Leméac, 2007)
- The Last Woman (Claudine Bertrand, translator, Guernica 2008)
- L'absence de point d'arrivée (essays, Interligne, forthcoming, 2009)
- Ce qu'on m'a volé (essays-interviews, Interligne, forthcoming, 2009)
Films
- L'Ampoule brûlée (short 16 mm, black and white, 1973)
- La Coupe de Circé (short 16 mm, black and white, 1974)
- Pour t'aimer (one-half hour 16 mm black and white, 1982–1987)
- The Minotaur (one-hour film project, 1992)
- Consent (unproduced screenplay co-written with Jennifer Dale)
- My Trip to Oaxaca (Video, 90 minutes, 2005)
- Bruco (feature, video, 90 minutes, 2005)
- Antigone (feature film project in the works)
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