Education
Born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936.
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Vittorio Sereni
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Career
In 1938, he co-founded the literary review Corrente di Vita. In 1941, he published Frontiera, his first collection of poetry. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World World War II: captured by Allied forces in 1943, he spent the rest of the war in Prisoner Of War camps in Algeria and Morocco.
These experiences formed the basis for his second poetry book, Diario d"Algeria.
After the war, Sereni worked as a teacher and literary critic. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1983, he was literary director of the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house.
His later collections of poetry included Gli strumenti umani (1965) and Stella variabile (1981). He was a prolific translator, rendering into Italian the works of Pierre Corneille, Paul Valéry and William Carlos Williams, among others
Sereni"s works are collected in English in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition (2006), translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson.
Achievements
Politics
His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy"s military defeat in World World War II, and its postwar resurgence.
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Nationality
Italy