INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF POETRY AWARD "REGINA COPPOLA", 2024

Presentation of the International House of Poetry Award to the poet Ada Salas The seventh edition of the International House of Poetry Award, 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, 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 Prize, in previous editions has been awarded to: Barbara Korun (Solevnia, 2016), Maram al-Masri (Syria, 2017), Agneta Falk (Sweden, 2018), Livia Chandra Candiani (Italy, 2019) Carmen Yañez (Chile, 2021), and Devorah Major (United States, 2022), is awarded for lifetime achievement to a poet who has particularly distinct along the two lines 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 seventh edition, to the Spanish poet ADA SALAS. Ada Salas was born in Cáceres in 1965. She studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Extremadura, where she obtained a research grant. In addition to writing poems and essays, he taught in secondary schools. Over the years he has held numerous courses, workshops, seminars and conferences in centers such as the Cervantes Institute, the Juan March Foundation, La Casa Encendida, the José Hierro Poetry Center Foundation, various universities and book fairs such as those in Guadalajara and Frankfurt. He has participated in national and international poetry festivals and meetings. In Italian, "Poesie", an anthology of his works, was published in 2015 by Multimedia Edizioni, and "Archeologie" at the end of 2023, both translated by Raffaella Marzano. It is possible to read and listen to some of the winner's poems, as well as bio-bibliographical information and critical insights on the website www.casadellapoesia.org and on the multimedia magazine Potlatch http://www.potlatch.it/. The Prize (worth €1,000.00), made available by the Cavallo-Coppola family, and a ceramic object by Livio Ceccarelli, will be awarded during a public evening to be held on Tuesday 11 May, at Teatro Genovesi, via Sichelgaita 12, Salerno, from 7.00 pm. A reading will follow in which Ada Salas will be accompanied by the double bass player Aldo Vigorito. * info: 347 6275911

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Program Tuesday 11 May 2024 at 7.00 pm Teatro Genovesi via Sichelgaita, 12 Salerno

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INTERNATIONAL "HOUSE OF POETRY - REGINA COPPOLA" AWARD, 2024 VII edition Proclamation of the winner - Motivation The jury has decided to award the seventh edition of the International House of Poetry Award "Regina Coppola" 2024 to ADA SALAS. Ada Salas was born in Caceres, a city in Extremadura in the north-west of Spain, she lived for a long time in Madrid where she taught in the city's high schools. This year she returned to Caceres as cultural director of the city. She has published many books of poetry, essays and plays, becoming a leading author of that generation of Spanish poets who are increasingly establishing themselves, like a wave. In Ada Salas's poetry, words are breaches or fissures, cracks that open in the wall of reality to make it a habitable place, to build other realities. Therefore, fragments, suspensions, traces, imprints to decipher, concrete and sometimes mysterious signals to interpret. A journey full of surprises, charm, intuitions. The unexpected, the mystery of life, the hope of deciphering the essence, of trying to bring closer the meaning of life that is within us can be converted into song, can move us and surprise us, bring us closer to the sense of absence or open windows on creation. Ada Salas' poetry, so intense, dry, essential, moves us and gives us hope. For her original and cliché-free, eclectic and evocative work, for having valorised and favored the affirmation of female writing, for the overall body of her work and for her great human and social sensitivity, for her dedication to teaching and cultural organisation, the jury believes, in coherence with the programmatic intentions already mentioned, to award Ada Salas this prize dedicated to the memory of Regina Coppola.