Edoardo Sanguineti | |
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 Edoardo Sanguineti at a meeting inGenoa on lexicon andopen source publications. | |
| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 June 1979 – 11 July 1983 | |
| Constituency | Genoa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1930-12-09)9 December 1930 |
| Died | 18 May 2010(2010-05-18) (aged 79) |
| Resting place | Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno[1] |
| Party | Italian Communist Party |
| Occupation | Poet,novelist,essayist,translator |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Poetry,essay,short story,novel |
| Literary movement | Neoavanguardia |
| Notable works | Laborintus |
Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was aGenoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
In 1956, Sanguineti published his first poetry collection, Laborintus. The author adopted a “labyrinthine” structure in these poems, preceding the poetic sperimentalism that characterized the 1960s.
During the 1960s, he was a leader of the neo-avant-gardeGruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 atSolunto. His work was published in the first issue of0 to 9 magazine in 1967. He was also an active translator ofJoyce,Molière,Shakespeare,Bertolt Brecht, and select Greek and Latin authors.
From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of theChamber of Deputies of theItalian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of theItalian Communist Party.
He was an atheist.[2]
Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following emergencysurgery for anabdominal aneurysm. He was 79.[3]
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