Alda Merini
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Alda Merini
(1931–). Poet born in Milan , who published her first collection, La presenza di Orfeo, in 1953, but who has achieved most acclaim since Vuoto d'amore (1991). Her poetry is highly charged and much of it concerned with the mental instability for which she was hospitalized in the 1960s and 1970s. [.]
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Alda Merini (Milan, March 21, 1931 – November 1, 2009) was a renowned Italian writer and poet.
Life
Alda Merini started her poetic career when she was really young and soon she gained the attention and the admiration of many famous italian writers, like Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her intense, passionate and mystic writing style was influenced especially by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
Her verses are mainly about her long and dramatic hospitalization in mental home (since 1964 to the late 1970s), and the "otherness" of madness in the creative expression. One of her masterpieces is L'altra verità. Diario di una diversa ("The other truth. Diary of a dropout"), Scheiwiller, 1986.
In 1996 Alda Merini was proposed by the "Académie Francaise" for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She received the prize of the Italian Republic in the area of poetry.[1]
The day of her death, the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, called her an "inspired and limpid poetic voice."
References
- ^ (Italian) "E' morta la poetessa Alda Merini - cantò il dolore degli esclusi". La Repubblica. 01-11-2009. http://www.repubblica.it/2009/11/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/alda-merini/alda-merini/alda-merini.html?ref=rephp. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
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