Maria Grazia CALANDRONE

CALANDRONE Maria Grazia

Poems

P - Persona

Maria Grazia Calandrone is a poet, author, journalist and playwright, as well as writing and hosting programmes for Italy’s national public broadcaster Rai (most recently: “Poesia in technicolor”). She also writes for the newspaper “Corriere della Sera” and has directed video reportage for the newspaper’s video channel “Corriere TV” on the reception of migrants “I volontari” and Sarajevo “Viaggio in una guerra non finita”. She holds poetry workshops in state schools, prisons and mental health facilities. She has received the Montale, Pasolini, Trivio, Dessì and Naples prizes for her poetry. Her most recent books are Serie fossile (Crocetti, 2015 – short-listed for the Viareggio award), Gli Scomparsi – storie da “Chi l’ha visto?” (pordenonelegge, 2016), Il bene morale (Crocetti, 2017), Per voce sola, a collection of theatrical monologues, drawings and photographs, with an accompanying CD with the voice of Sonia Bergamasco, the translations Fossils (SurVision, Ireland 2018) and the Arabic anthology La luce del giorno (al-Mutawassit, Damascus 2019), and Un altro mondo, lo stesso mondo, a rewriting of Pascoli’s Fanciullino (Aragno 2018). She also edited an anthology of the poems of Nella Nobili (Solferino 2018) and presented previously unpublished poetry in the “Cantiere Poesia” section of the magazine “Poesia” (Crocetti). She also puts on the video concerts Senza bagaglio and Corpo reale. Her works have appeared in numerous foreign anthologies and journals.

(c) Pasqualini Schiarita

  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Commission européenne
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Swedish Institute
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • MuntPunt
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • LOFT 58
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU