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Gerhard
Kofler was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1949. He is an Italian citizen but
lives in Vienna, Austria, as a writer, literary critic and (since 1989)
Secretary General of the Grazer Autorenversammlung (the writers union
founded in the Austrian town of Graz in 1973). Gerhard Kofler writes in
both German and Italian and has published 10 books of poetry, the most recent
ones being Trilogia del calendario/Trilogie des Kalenders and Poesie
di mare e terra/Poesie von Meer und Erde. Kofler has received several
prizes and scholarships. This fall he is writer-in-residence at Bowling
Green State University. For more information, see http://members.chello.at/gerhard.kofler/index.htm. |
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Edoardo
Albinati was born in Rome in 1956 and is a novelist, poet, and translator.
Since 1994 he has taught in the Rebibbia Penitentiary in Rome. His diary
of this experience, Maggio selvaggio, was published in 1999. Albinati's
most recent novel, 19, was published this year, and his newest collection
of poetry, Sintassi italiana, will appear in 2002. Other novels include
Orti di guerra (1997), Arabeschi della vita morale (1988),
and Il polacco lavatore dei vetri (1989), which was transferred to
the screen as La ballata dei lavavetri (directed by Peter Del Monte)
in 1998. Albinati has also been editor of the influential cultural review
Nuovi Argomenti and Visiting Writer at Columbia University. Albinati
is the principal Italian translator of the poetry of John Ashbery. |
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Oscar
van den Boogaard (1964) grew up in Suriname and the Netherlands. He studied
Law and French in Montpellier, Amsterdam, and Brussels, and worked briefly
in the legal profession. Since 1990 van den Boogaard has been a full-time
writer in Brussels, where he has published Dentz (1990), Fremdkörper
(1991), Bruno's optimisme (1993), De heerlijkheid van Julia
(1995), Liefdesdood (translated into English as "Love's Death,"
1999), and Sensaties (2000). In the spring of 2000 van den Boogaard
acted in the theatre experiment Verwantschappen (Relationships) which
was directed by Jan Ritsema. His stage debut, Lucia Smelt, a Stan
production, premiered in Brussels in June of this year. |
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Benjamín
Prado was born in Madrid in 1961. As a poet he has published Cobijo contra
la tormenta (1995, Hiperión Prize) and Todos nosotros (1998).
His novels have included Raro (1995), Alguien se acerca (1998),
No sólo el fuego (1999), Nunca le des la mano a un pistolero zurdo
(translated into English as "Never Shake Hands with a Left Handed Gunman,"
1999), and La nieve está vacía (2000). Prado’s latest publication
is Los nombres de Antígona (2001), a biographical work. Prado was
the 1999 recipient of the "XVI Premio Andalucía de Novela". |
