User:Carmelobene/Frank Coldheart

Frank Coldheart was born in a small town in Tuscany to Giancarlo Coldheart and Mara De Gasson. Coldheart spent his childhood in Tuscany and then went to University to Florence where he took a degree in Phylosophy with a dissertation on Heidegger and Levinas. At the age of 30 Coldheart moved to London where he still lives and works.

Coldheart started to writing when he was very young and a collection of poems from this early period has just been published with the title Il Guardiano del Confine. Coldheart's poetry has an incisive and ermetic style with clear influences from Blake, Trakl and Rilke.

In 2009 Coldheart published his first full length novel with the title All dwarves are born in Venice, a metaphisical thriller punctuated with reflections on the meaning of our presence on earth. Acclaimed by the critics, the book is currently being translated in several languages. Currently Coldheart is working on his second novel titled The life of John Da Silva.

Coldheart's work is influenced by a wide range of disciplines and authors, certainly the philosophers of the Western tradition like Plato, Hume, Schopenhauer and Heidegger but also writers such as Dostoewskij, Celine, Auster and Artaud. In Coldheart's poetic the influence of different forms of art is also evident: painting and music above all. Certainly Arvo Part and Bach in music and Bruegel and Bacon in painting have played a significant role in the development of his themes.