Antonio D'Alfonso

Antonio D'Alfonso

Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 August 1953) is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher, and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions. Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal into an Italian-Canadian family. He grew up speaking Italian and attended both English and French schools and became trilingual. He earned a BA from Loyola College (Concordia University) and a MA from the Université de Montréal. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. It was successful in promoting English and French language writers and expanded into publishing authors from ethnic minorities, particularly those of Italian backgrounds. D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2009.

As a writer, he has published works in English, Italian, and French, and has won awards in both. He is also a self-translator who rewrites his work from English to French or vice versa.