Cristina Campo
Cristina Campo (born April 28, 1923 in Bologna , † 1977 in Rome ; bourgeois Vittoria Guerrini ) was an Italian poet and translator .
life and work
Cristina Campo was born as Vittoria Guerrini in Bologna, where she first grew up. During the Second World War she lived in Florence. She published her first translations (by Katherine Mansfield among others ) under her maiden name. In 1948 she translated Eduard Mörike's poems into Italian for a Milan publisher . From 1951 Cristina Campo worked on the literary magazine Posta letteraria . There prose sketches of her were published for the first time under the title Diario d'Agosto . A German translation was published in the New Literary World . She moved to Rome in the 1950s. During this time, she also made a translation of A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf and worked on her own poems, which were published in 1956 in the debut volume Passo d'addio . Her complete works were published posthumously in two volumes: Gli Imperdonabili , Adelphi Verlag, Milan 1987 and La tigre assenza , Adelphi Verlag, Milan 1991.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörn Albrecht, Gio Batta Bucciol (ed.): Ten Italian female poets of the present. Dieci poetesse italiane contemporanee . Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-8233-4057-3 , p. 146 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campo, Cristina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guerrini, Vittoria (civil) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1977 |
| Place of death | Rome |