Nicola D'Ugo

Nicola D’Ugo was born in Florence in 1966. He has studied acting and world literature at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey (1987-1988), holds an M.A. cum laude in Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures (2004) and a Ph.D. in English Literatures (2010) from the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the founding editor of the blog Sulla letteratura (On literature) and contributes articles to Notizie in… Controluce and Rai News 24. He has been in the founding editorial staff of Praz!, in the editorial staff of Notizie in… Controluce, and a member of the “gruppo di frascati”, ENEA’s robotics research group. His writings have appeared in Avvenimenti, Englishes, MondoDonna, Amnesia Vivace, Samurai, on Rai News, Mondadori.com and Poets Against the War. He has published six stories, over 100 poems and 150 articles on literatures, cultures and foreign policies, apart a huge amount of academic papers. He has translated into Italian poems and stories by Vicente Huidobro, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Anne Sexton, Frank O'Hara, Tess Gallagher, Amy Bloom, Caroline Leavitt, and others. Poems was translated into English by Emilia Noble Drigo and published in 1998. His next book of poems, Notizie dalla Bosnia (News from Bosnia), will be published in 2014. He divides his time between Lerici and Cosenza. His most recent book of fiction is Memorie sfaldate annue (Memories Flayed Up Yearly), and his most recent book of poems is Notizie dalla Bosnia (News from Bosnia), both published in 2014.