Laura Accerboni  ►

Writer

Laura was born in Genoa in 1985 and lives in Lugano. Her poems have been published in several Italian and international magazines including Nuova corrente, Poesia, Steve, Loch Raven Review, and Kluger Hans. She has also published the poetry collections Attorno a ciò che non è stato (Edizioni del Leone, 2010) and La parte dell'annegato (Nottetempo, 2016). She has won several literary awards including: Lerici Pea giovani (1996), Premio internazionale di poesia Piero Alinari (2011), and Premio Achille Marazza Opera Prima (2012), and her poems are translated into more than ten languages. She has been a guest at numerous international festivals and one of the poets selected for the Versopolis project promoted by the European Union since 2016. Lastly, Laura is one of the founders of transnational literary agency Linguafranca, and works with the Babel Festival of literature and translation (Bellinzona).



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