Laura Garavaglia is a poet, translator, journalist, founder and president of “La Casa della Poesia di Como”, director of International Poetry Festival “Europa in versi”. Her poetry books are: Frammenti di vita (Il Filo, 2009); Farfalle e pietre (Lietocolle, 2010) Jury’s Award “Alda Merini – Brunate” 2011; La simmetria del gheriglio (Stampa2009, 2012, new edition in English and Rumanian) Finalist at Mario Luzi Awarad 2103; Correnti ascensionali (CFR, 2013, in English, Spanish and Rumanian) Poetry Prize at European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literarture 2017 ; Numeri e Stelle (Ed. Ulivo, Balerna, CH in English, Spanish and Rumanian; new edition in English and Potuguese, IQdB, 2019) Poetry Prize “Antonio Farina” 2017,La presenza viva delle cose – Living Things (Puntoacapo, 2020) Special Mentions International Poetry Prize Pegasus Cattolica and Premio Lorenzo Montano 2020, Sayi ve Yildiz, poems translated in Turkish (Şiirden Yayıncılık, 2018). In Japanese Duet of stars/Hoshi no nijuso: za sutazu dyuetto (Nihon Kokusai Shijin Kyokai), Duet of Formula/Shiki no Nijuso (Nihon
Kokusai Shijin Kyokai), Những sự vật hiện hữu, antologia di poesie in Vietnamita, 2020. In Rumanian: Numere si Semme/ La presenza viva delle cose (Revers, Craiova); La ruga profonda della vita/Ridul Adînc al vieţii; Muzica sferelor (Editura pentru Literaturâ şi artâ, 2019), Csendkvantumok,,(AB ART Kiado, 2020) poems in Ungarian, poems in Serbian: Живе ствари =La presenza viva delle cose, Алма, 2020, poems in Ukrainian: Симетрія Перлини, (СамітКнига, 2019) La simetria de la nuez (La Garua, 2020). She won the Poetry Prize 2018 of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature in Paris. She’s member of PEN Club of Italy and Switzerland and of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature (Paris). She won Naji Naaman Honour Prize 2019 and the K&C Poetry Prize, 2020, Swon, South Korea. She was honoured by Accademia Mondiale di Letteratura Miahi Eminescu (Craiova – Romania) for her international cultural management and Honoris Causa Degree by High Education Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2019 she also won the Jubilee Poetry Prize at 55° International Poetry Meeting in Gjacova, Kosovo, the title of Poetry of Historical Capital of Iasi, Romania and the Poetry Prize of Literatura şi Arta, Moldavia. She also was decorated by Orthodox Patriarch of Kiev for developing culture in the word. Her poems are translated in several languages and published in many anthologies and literary magazines in Italy and abroad. She’s invited in many International Poetry Festival (Romania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Vietnam, Japan, Corea, Colombia, USA, etc.). She has translated many poets and edited books and anthology. Her poems are translated in 15 languages and printed in anthologies and literary magazine. www.lauragaravaglia.it https://www.facebook.com/laura.garavaglia.54