 |
(Born in Turin, Italy, 1968) Translator, author, freelance researcher and essayst, with an interest in diverse facets of Japanese culture, he has focused on promoting a deeper and wider cultural exchange between East and West. His work touches not only literature and history, but also language and dialect, traditional stage entertainment and recent phenomena in Japanese society and pop culture. |
| He has translated into Italian a number of works by modern writers such as Dazai Osamu, Miyazawa Kenji, Yamamura Bocho, Yumeno Kyusaku, and by contemporary authors such as (among others) Asamatsu Ken, Bando Masako, Kikuchi Hideyuki, Onda Riku and Sena Hideaki. In 2004 he edited the poetry anthology Come vena d'acqua, published by Edizioni Empìria, the first book to collect a complete and uncut collection of the works of Nakahara Chuya and Tachihara Michizo, standard-bearers of the Shintaishi, the "new form" of Japanese poetry. | |
| He was also the editor of A Oriente! (La Babele del Levante, Milano, 2002), the first bilingual Italian-Japanese magazine. | |
| He routinely collaborates with Italian journals dealing with East Asian culture such as Quaderni Asiatici (Centro di Cultura Italia-Asia "G. Scalise", Milano) and with literary magazines such as LN-LibriNuovi (C.S. Coop. Studi, Torino) and Studi Lovecraftiani (Dagon Press, Pineto). He is the author of the modern literature entries for the Nova, Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico encyclopaedia, published by UTET (Torino, 2001, reprinted in 2003 as L'Enciclopedia, La Repubblica, Roma). He was the editor for a series of interviews on Kamigata rakugo, a monologue-based form of traditional entertainment, and has moderated a series of debates between Italian and Japanese authors. | |
| Resident consultant and translator for the Turin Chamber of Commerce, he holds several courses in Japanese language and culture (CentrOriente di Torino, l'Università Popolare di Torino and the Associazione Interculturale Italia-Giappone SAKURA.) | |
| As an author of fiction his short stories have been published in various anthologies, including the Fata Morgana (C.S. Coop. Studi, Torino) and Alia (C.S. Coop. Studi, Torino) series. |