Franco Buffoni was born in Gallarate (Lombardy) in 1948. He is a full professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. For 30 years he has taught in the universities of Parma, Bergamo, Milano IULM, Torino, and Cassino. Some of his books of poetry are: “Suora Carmelitana” (Montale Award, Guanda, 1997); “Songs of Spring” (Mondello Award, Marcos y Marcos, 1999); “Il Profilo del Rosa” (Betocchi Award, Mondadori, 2000); “Guerra” (Dedalus Award, Mondadori, 2005); “Noi e loro” (Marino Award, Donzelli, 2008); “Roma” (Giuseppe Giusti Award, Guanda 2009); “Poesie 1975-2012” (Oscar Mondadori, 2012, pp 400); “Jucci” (Castello di Villalta Award, Mondadori 2014). Some parts of these books have been published in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and England. Two full-length collections have appeared in the United States and in France. In 1989 he founded and he is still the editor of the review “Testo a Fronte”, dedicated to the theory and the practice of literary translation (Marcos y Marcos). As a translator he edited “I Poeti Romantici Inglesi”, (Mondadori, 2005). “As an essayist he published Ritmologia” (Marcos y Marcos, 2002), “La traduzione del testo poetico” (Marcos y Marcos, 2005), “Con il testo a fronte. Indagine sul tradurre e l’essere tradotti” (Interlinea, 2007), and “Laico Alfabeto” (Transeuropa, 2010). As a novelist he published “Più luce, padre” (Luca Sossella Editore, 2006), “Zamel” (Marcos y Marcos, 2009), “Il servo di Byron” (Fazi, 2012), “La casa di via Palestro” (Marcos y Marcos, 2014). As a journalist he collaborates with several magazines and radio programs. He lives in Rome.
