Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1956, Sanguineti publishes his first poetry collection, Laborintus. In these poems, the author adopted a “labyrinthine” structure, precending the poetic sperimentalism that characterized the 60’s.

During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. His work was published in the first issue of 0 to 9 magazine in 1967.

He was also an active translator of Joyce, Molière, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and select Greek and Latin authors.

From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of the PCI.

He was an atheist.