INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF POETRY AWARD REGINA COPPOLA 2016

International House of Poetry Award to the poet Barbara Korun The first edition of the International House of Poetry Award, strongly supported by the Cavallo-Coppola family in full harmony with the House of Poetry of Baronissi-Salerno, to keep alive the memory of Regina Coppola (16 June 1956 - 6 June 2015), whose sensitivity towards aesthetic values ​​and social solidarity are well known to those who knew her, is about to reach its final event. In line with Regina's personality and the history of the House of Poetry, the Prize is characterized by sobriety and absolute independence, not requiring patronage or contributions from public or private bodies or institutions. With it we intend to valorise the work carried out by a woman over the years in the literary field and which has been accompanied by a significant civil and social commitment. And this as a tribute to Regina Coppola and in full awareness of the major difficulties still faced today by women in asserting themselves in all fields of life in Italy and in the world. The Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to a poet who has particularly distinguished herself according to the two guidelines just mentioned. The jury of the Casa della Poesia International Prize, composed of Raffaella Marzano (President), Stefania Zuliani, Piero Cavallo, Sergio Iagulli and Francesco Napoli, has chosen the winner from a shortlist of names reported by the members themselves. The lifetime achievement award is awarded, for this first edition, to the Slovenian poet BARBARA KORUN. Barbara Korun was born in 1963 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where she still resides. Graduated in Slavic and comparative literature, literature teacher in various gymnasiums in the Slovenian capital, essayist, literary and theater critic, but above all poet, she also worked in some Slovenian theaters with the task of taking care of the language and artistic interpretation of the actors. In 1999 he published the collection of poems "Ostrina miline" (The roughness of sweetness) with the Mladinska knjiga publishing house in Ljubljana, which was awarded as best first work. In 2003 the Apokalipsa publishing club of Ljubljana published his second work, this time of poetic prose, "Zapiski iz podmizja" (Writings from under the table). The following year his third anthology "Razpoke" (Rifts) was published by the Nova revija publishing house. In 2011, the Apokalipsa publishing club again published "Pridem takoj" (I'll come right away), thanks to which he won the Zlata ptica (Golden Bird) prize for literature and the Veronika prize. In 2014, he published the collection "Čečica" (Troubled by love) and in 2016, "Vmes" (In the middle). It is present in numerous national and international anthologies and is translated into twenty-four languages. It organizes readings by Slovenian poets and is active in promoting poetry in Slovenian schools. His first Italian book "I want to talk about you night. Monologues" dates back to 2013, translated by Jolka Milič and published by Multimedia Edizioni. * info: 347 6275911

Program

Saturday 11 June 2016 at 7.00 pm Teatro Genovesi via Sichelgaita, 12 Salerno

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INTERNATIONAL "HOUSE OF POETRY - REGINA COPPOLA" AWARD, 2016 1st edition Proclamation of the winner - Motivation The international House of Poetry Award was strongly desired by the Cavallo-Coppola family in full harmony with the House of Poetry of Baronissi-Salerno, to keep alive the memory of Regina Coppola (16 June 1956 - 6 June 2015), whose sensitivity towards aesthetic values and social solidarity are well known to those who knew her. The Award, characterized by sobriety and absolute independence, has not requested and does not receive patronage or contributions from public or private bodies or institutions. It intends to valorise the work carried out by a woman over the years in the literary field and which has been accompanied by a significant civil and social commitment. And this as a tribute to Regina Coppola and in full awareness of the major difficulties still faced today by women to emerge in every field. The jury, chaired by Raffaella Marzano and composed of Stefania Zuliani, Giancarlo Cavallo, Sergio Iagulli and Francesco Napoli, decided to award the first Regina Coppola International House of Poetry Prize to BARBARA KORUN, with the following motivation: The poetry of the Slovenian Barbara Korun, translated and published in twelve languages, subversive, honest and ironic, is the happy outcome of a work aware of both the great literary tradition of the twentieth century, in which furrow fits in with strong originality, both with the value of one's femininity. His verses, often whispered and yet always vigorous, manage to convey a positive message, not only when they deal with themes such as love and eroticism, to which the Slovenian language lends itself so well (in fact it has, in addition to singular and plural, also the dual, specific for couples of people or objects), but even when it deals with the theme of death which is accepted in a natural, almost joyful way ("the thought of death is like / a soft pillow", "death is like a sister", "death she is […] a great friend”). In addition to the aforementioned specific areas of the female condition and love, Korun's poetics also includes history, current events and the environment, always illustrated with great sensitivity and analytical ability, with the courage and desire to ask questions, even those that are difficult to answer. But Barbara Korun is a courageous woman not only in the literary field: for some time, in fact, she has been involved as a volunteer in the refugee reception camps in Slovenia, where she also carries out purely material tasks, testifying, in these times of walls and barbed wire in which selfishness and fears seem to prevail, the value of solidarity in its daily concreteness. For her work as a whole and for her great human and social sensitivity, the jury believes, in line with the programmatic intentions already mentioned, to award Barbara Korun this award dedicated to the memory of Regina Coppola.