Acting in accordance with Elsa Geiger Ari\u00e8\u2019s bequest commemorating\u00a0her father, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini has set up the Benno Geiger\u00a0Poetry Translation Prize, to be awarded for an Italian translation of a
\nwork of poetry from an ancient, mediaeval or modern Western language\u00a0published in the previous year. The annual prize thus honours\u00a0Benno Geiger (1882-1965), an Austrian writer and art critic who published important works\u00a0on the history of art as well as his own poetry. He also made some excellent German translations\u00a0of Italian verse classics.<\/p>\n
Geiger\u2019s fascinating letters on literary and artistic matters with\u00a0early 20th-century Italian and European correspondents are now in the Literary Archives of\u00a0the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Chaired by Francesco Zambon, the Prize Jury \u2013 made up of\u00a0Shaul Bassi, Franco Buffoni, Fabrizio Cambi and Piero Taravacci \u2013 will meet in September to\u00a0choose the winner for the 2014 edition.<\/p>\n
The winner\u2019s name will be announced on the completion\u00a0of the proceedings, while the prize-giving ceremony will be held on 11 October 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34014,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1470],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[],"class_list":["post-35561","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n