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Claudia Zironi (born March 26, 1964) is an Italian poet and writer.

Biography
Claudia Zironi graduated from the University of Bologna in Oriental History and works in Bologna where she lives. She began writing poetry at the age of 17, struck by a play by Carmelo Bene about Vladimir Mayakovskiji, but her first publication takes place only thirty years later. In 2012 she founded the cultural association, which she chairs, Versante Ripido in order to spread and promote the reading of poetry in Italy. With Versante Ripido, together with the co-founders, the poets Paolo Polvani and Emanuela Rambaldi and a vast network of collaborators, she organized dozens of events in Bologna and published interviews, reviews and works by hundreds of Italian poets on the web and on paper. At the beginning of 2020 the magazine stopped publishing but the blog connected to it remains active. From 2013 to 2016 she was artistically linked to Gruppo 77 of Bologna under the direction of Alessandro Dall'Olio. She currently collaborates with several Italian magazines and blogs. At the origin of her intense voluntary work for the dissemination of poetry there's the conviction that readers must be brought back to love an expressive form that has become the Cinderella of Italian literature, despite the creative and productive vivacity that underlies it.

Works

 * Il tempo dell’esistenza (The time of existence), with an introduction by Paolo Polvani (Marco Saya Editions, Milano 2012)


 * Eros e polis, illustrated by painter Alberto Cini, with an introduction by Daniele Barbieri and afterword by Giorgio Linguaglossa (Terra d’ulivi Editions, Lecce 2014)


 * Eros and polis in English translation by Emanuel Di Pasquale, with an introduction by John Taylor and afterword by Alfredo De Palchi (Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions, NYC USA 2016)


 * Fantasmi, spettri, schermi, avatar e altri sogni (Ghosts, Spectres, Screens, Avatars and Other Dreams), with a introduction by Francesca Del Moro and afterword by Vladimir D'Amora (Marco Saya Editions, Milano 2016)


 * Ursprüngliches Leben – poesia e pittura in dialogo (Ursprüngliches Leben – a dialogue between poetry and painting, an art book co-produced with the poet Silvia Secco and the painter Martina Dalla Stella (Edizionifolli on KDP Amazon, 2018)


 * Variazioni sul tema del tempo (Variations on the theme of time), with a introduction by Paolo Polvani (Versante Ripido on KDP Amazon, 2018)
 * Quando si spegne il cielo (When the sky goes out) (artisanal limited edition in 40 copies by Edizionifolli, Bologna 2019)


 * Not bad (2019-2020), illustrated with pictures of the photographer Emiliano Medardo Barbieri, with an introduction by Francesco Tomada (Arcipelago Itaca Editions, Osimo AN 2020) - Winner of 2021 Grottammare City price

Honors

 * With published and unpublished poems, over the years she has positioned herself in the final or selected or mentioned or reported in various poetry competitions such as: Renato Giorgi, Montano, Gradiva International, Gozzano, Bernardi, Arcipelago Itaca, Virgilio, Albero Andronico, Città di Como awards. With 'Not bad' she has won Grottammare City Award 2021.
 * From 2016 to 2018 she has juror in Poetry Without Borders award organized by the association La Guglia in Agugliano AN. In 2017/2018 she was part of the jury of the historic Navile Award of Bologna.
 * She has been invited to various poetry festivals such as: Virgilio of Mantova, BIL Bologna in lettere, Sirmio International Poetry Festival in Sirmione, Arti sorelle in Cesena, Poeti in itinere in Fiumicino.
 * Some of her texts have been translated into several languages: English (by Emanuel Di Pasquale for the American Edition of Eros and polis), Romanian (for Tribuna magazine), Spanish (by Centro cultural Tina Modotti Caracas), French (by translater Silvia Guzzi for her web site), Chinese (for magazine Xin Gongren Wenxue) and Greek (by Evangelia Polymou for Thraka Magazine).