Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 August 1953)Filippo Salvatore, Ancient Memories, Modern Identities. Guernica Editions, 1999. . is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher, translator and filmmaker, the founder of Guernica Editions.
Biography
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. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, 2012. In 2016, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Athabasca University. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2010. He co-founded in 1986 the Association of Italian Canadian. Writers in Vancouver, with Joseph Pivato, C.D. Mini, Pasquale Verdicchio, and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. He co-founded with Fulvio Caccia, Lamberto Tassinari, Bruno Ramirez, Gianni Caccia, the tricultural magazine, Vice Versa, in Montreal. His Archives can be found at McMaster University. Founded Raspa Editions in 2024.
Education 1959-60: Saint Aloysius Elementary. 1960-64: Saint-Finbarr Elementary. 1964-66: Saint-Michel Elementary. 1966-70: John F. Kennedy High School. 1970-72: Loyola College 1972-75: Loyola College/Concordia University. B.A. (Communication Arts) 1976-79: Université de Montréal. M.Sc. (Communication Science). 2007-2012: University of Toronto. Doctor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Italian Studies (Film). 2016: Athabasca University. Honorary Doctorate. Ph.D. of Letters.
Literary awards 2000: Fabrizio's Passion won the Bressani Award.Gambling with Failure (review): Project MUSE - Gambling with Failure (review), accessdate: March 27, 2016 2003: La passione di Fabrizio won the Internazionale emigrazione in Italy.Egidio Marchese – Ti sei occupata e hai scritto varie volte di Antonio D'Alfonso: Egidio Marchese – Ti sei occupata e hai scritto varie volte di Antonio D'Alfonso, accessdate: March 27, 2016 2005: Un vendredi du mois d’août (2004) won the Trillium Award. 2006: Bruco on the New York Independent Film Award.
Poetry 1973 : La chanson du shaman à Sedna (1973) 1979 : Queror (1979) 1983 : Black Tongue (1983) 1986 : The Other Shore (1985) 1986 : L’Autre rivage (1986) 1987 : L’amour panique (1987) 1992 : Julia (1992) 1992 : Panick Love (1992) 1998 : L’apostrophe qui me scinde (1998, 2010) 2001 : Comment ça se passe (2001) 2002 : Getting on with Politics (2002) 2004 : Antigone (2004) 2005 : Bruco (2005) 2005 : Un homme de trop (2005) 2013 : Un ami, un nuage (2013) 2014 : The Irrelevant Man (2014) 2014 : Ne m’interrompez pas (avec Suzanne Biron) (photos) 2016 : Antigone (Ekstasis, 2016) 2018 : Antigone (Noroît, 2018). 2018 : Collección México (Mantis Editores-Luis Armenta Malpica-Ecrits des forges, 2018) 2020 : Two-Headed Man: Collected Poems:1970-2020 (Guernica, 2020) 2024 : Vanno più veloce di me (Raspa Editore, 2024, 2026). Translated by Anna Ciamparella.
Photography 2026: Visi: Italic Writers in the Country
Novels
1990 : Avril ou l’anti-passion 1995 : Fabrizio’s Passion 2002 : La passione de Fabrizio (transl. by Antonello Lombardi) 2004 : Un vendredi du mois d’août 2005 : A Friday in August (transl. by Jo-Anne Elder) 2007 : L’Aimé
Memoirs 2022 : Outside Looking In: Entries 1980-1981 (Ekastsis Editions, 2022-2023) 2025 : 19th Avenue (Raspa, 2025)
Translations
1985: The Clarity of Voices, by Philippe Haeck (Guernica Editions, 1985) 0-919349-56-0 1997: The Films of Jacques Tati, by Michel Chion (Guernica, 1997). 2000: Le paysage qui bouge, by Pasquale Verdicchio (Le Noroît, 2000). 2-89018-435-8 2003: On Order and Things, by Stefan Psenak (Guernica, 2003). 2003: Dreaming Our Space, by Marguerite Andersen (Guernica, 2003). 2005: The Blueness of Light, by Louise Dupré (Guernica, 2005). 2005: The World Forgotten, by Paul Bélanger (Guernica 2005). 2008: The Last Woman, by Claudine Bertrand (Guernica 2008) . 2010: The Man Who Delivers Clouds, by José Acquelin (Guernica, 2010). 2011: twohundredandfourspoems, by Roger des Roches (Guernica, 2011). 2011: Un bonheur inattendu, by Marella Caracciolo Chia (Leméac, 2011) 2012: Un bonheur inattendu, by Marella Caracciolo Chia (Syrtes (Paris), 2012). 2013: Wings Folded in Cracks, by Jean-Pierre Vallotton (Guernica, 2013) 2014: Hours, by Fernand Ouellette (Guernica, 2013). 2014: Beyond the Flames, by Louise Dupré (Guernica, 2014) 2014: The Body Vagabond, by Martine Audet (Ekstasis, 2014) 2014: The Terror Chronicles, by Normand De Bellefeuille (Ekstasis, 2014) 2014: Words and the Stone, by Pierrettte Micheloud (Ekstasis, 2014) 2014: Manhattan Poems, by Claudio Angelini (Ekstasis, 2014) 2015: Farida, a novel by Naïm Kattan, (translated with Norman Cornett) (Guernica, 2015) 2015: The Intimate Frailty of Mortals, by Paul Chamberland (Ekstasis, 2015) 2015: I travel the world, by Thierry Renard (Ekstasis, 2015) 2015: Weeping Will Not Save the Stars, François Guerrette, (Ekstasis, 2015) 2016: Poèmes, Kim Doré et Jean-François Poupart. Arc Poetry Magazine. 2016: The Wind Under Our Footsteps, Diane Régimbald (Ekstasis, 2016) 2016: We are what we love, Bernard Pozier (Ekstasis, 2016) 2016: Sails for Exile, Mona Latif-Chattas (with Yasmine Mariam Kloth, Ekstasis, 2016) 2016: Toward the Rising Sun, Robert Giroux (Ekstasis, 2016) 2017: On Love, Jack Keguenne (Ekstasis, 2017) 2017: Daring Touch, Louise Cotnoir (Ekstasis, 2017) 2018: Vigil Poems, Jean Royer (Guernica, 2018) 2018: Words for the Traveler, Hugues Corriveau (Ekstasis, 2018) 2018: Woman with Camera, Corinne Larochelle (Ekstasis, 2018) 2018: Night Blues, Yolande Villemaire & Claude Beausoleil (Ekstasis, 2018). 2019: Celebrations by Naim Kattan (Ekstasis, 2019). 2020: Tell me what moves you, Philippe Haeck (Guernica). 2022: Laike et Nahum, Ruth Panofsky (Edition du Noroît). 2022: Pessoa in Montreal, Paul Bélanger (Ekstasis Editions). 2023. Morning Trains, Viviane Ciampi (Ekstasis Editions).
Anthologies Quêtes : Textes d’auteurs italo-québécois (co-edited with Fulvio Caccia, 1984) Voix off : Dix poètes anglophones du Québec (1985) Found in Translation: An Anthology of Poets from Quebec (2013) États des lieux: Trieze poètes américains contemporains, edited by Antoine Boisclair (2013) (Translation of poems by Fanny Howe)
Essays In Italics : In Defence of Ethnicity (1996) Duologue : On Culture and Identity (with Pasquale Verdicchio, 1998) En italiques : Réflexions sur l’ethnicité (2000) Gambling with Failure (2005) Etnilisuse kaitskes (transl. by Reet Sool, 2006) In corsivo italico (transl. by Silvana Mangione, 2009) Ne m’interrompez pas (avec Suzanne Biron) (photos) (Noroît, 2015) Poetica del Pluriculturalismo (Samuele Editore, 2015) Em italico: Reflexoes sobre a ethnicidade (translated by Ala Lucia Silva Paranhos), (UFRGS editora, 2015) Antonio D’Alfonso : Essays on His Works. Edited by Licia Canton (Guernica, 2018). Pasquale Verdicchio: Essays on His Works. Edited by Antonio D’Alfonso (Guernica, 2019) La diaspora italiana in Canada, a cura di Anthony Julian Tamburri e Silvana Mangione (NY: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2022). Altrove: Intellettuali molisani nella diaspora, a cura di Norberto Lombardi (Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2022) The Italian Canadian Writer (Ekstasis Editions, 2023) I could have been a contender (Casa Lago Press, 2024) In Italics (Raspa Editions, 2026). A completely revised and rewritten edition. A Conversation with Lazar Rockwood (Raspa Editions, 2026)
Films Nonna (short 16mm, black and white, 1973, 2004) La Coupe de Circé (short 16mm, black and white, 1974-2005) Pour t’aimer (one-half hour 16mm black and white, 1982-1987-2005) My Trip to Oaxaca (90 minutes, 2005) Bruco (90 minutes, 2005)= Best Foreign Film, Best International Director Award at the New York International Film Festival Antigone (87 minutes, 2012)=Bronze Award, Prestige Festival Real Gangsters (Frank D’Angelo, 2013, actor) Duse and Me (2015, short) La chambre éphémère (with Christian Duguay), 2017, document essay. Tata (193 minutes, 2020). Conversation with Lazar Rockwood (2020). Conversation with Monica Lavin (2020). Conversation with Pasquale Verdicchio (2020). Conversation avec Paul Bélanger (2020). Conversation with Damiano Pietropaolo (2021). Conversation with Jose Pivato (2021). Conversation with Enrico Granafei (2021). Conversazione con Gino Chiellino (2022). Conversation with Anca Christifovici (2022). Conversation with Daniel Sloate (2022). Conversation with Luciano Iacobelli (2022). Conversation with Maria Mazziotti Gillan (2023). Conversation with Robert Marra (2024). Conversation with Noah Zacharin (2025) Becoming Artimesia (17 minutes, 2023). Sono (90 minutes, 2024) Mary of Nazareth (90, 2025). Heloise d’Argenteuil (20, 2026). Hannah Arendt (20, 2026)
References
External links
The author's item at Athabasca University, Canadian-English Writers; with hyperlinks