Monday 24 June, at 7.00 pm, at the “Rocco Polimeni” tennis club” as part of the Rhegium Julii series of meetings called Here you are latethe latest book by will be presented Rene Corona The snowdrops from elsewhere Book publishing house.
Speeches from the President of the host club are scheduled for the occasion Ezio Privitera and of Pino Bova for the Rhegium Julii. The poet’s comments will follow Ilda Tripodi and the writer Daniela Scuncia. The conclusions will be drawn by the author himself.
Professor of French language and translation at the University of Messina, Rene Corona he is a full-blown poet recognized with a special prize named after the poetess Alba Florio with the volume The imprecise count – Puntoacapo publisher.
He has translated several Italian and foreign poets for the magazine Europe, among which Gozzano, Caproni, Magrelli, Paul De Roux Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Yves Leclair. and has published in theAmourier the first French translation of Gesualdo Bufalino’s poems My love. He also edited the first translation of Henri Calet’s novel Lazy Italy.
He is the author of two novels including:hèbètude des tendres (Finitude,2012), the monograph Le singulier pluriel ou “Icare et les elegiaques” (Paris, Hermann, 2016) and the poetic collections MessinElègie (Triages, Tarabuste, 2015), L’èchancrure du quotidien (L’Harmattan, 2017), Spelling in the courtyards (puntoacapo, 2019), The alphabet of dawn (2021), The tenant of words (2022, I snowdrops from elsewhere (2023). He translated the work from French Francois d’Assise based on the novel by Joseph Deltei.
Renè Corona has already passed the first selection of poets designated for the possible award of the Rhegium Julii 2024 prize for the Poetry Section.
