MARCO LUCCHESI
Marco Lucchesi was born on December 9, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. His parents, Elena Dati and Egidio Lucchesi, were Italians from Tuscany, so Divina Commedia and Orlando Furioso are an integral part of his childhood memories. The following titles stand out in his vast literary creation: Adeus, Pirandello (2021, a novel), O Dom do Crime (The Gift of Crime, 2010; 2022, a novel), Domínios da insônia (The Domains of Insomnia) – new collected poems (2019, poetry), Clio (2014, poetry), Os Olhos do Deserto (The Eyes of the Desert, 2000, memoirs), Saudades do Paraíso (Longing for Paradise, 1997, memoirs); Nove cartas sobre a Divina Comédia (Nine Letters to the Divine Comedy) (2021, an essay), Carteiro Imaterial (The Immaterial Postman) (2016, an essay), Ficções de um Gabinete Ocidental (Fictions from a Western Cabinet) (2008, an essay).
Umberto Eco, Giambattista Vico, Georg Trakl, Hölderlin, Rûmî, Primo Levi, Ion Barbu, Angelus Silesius, Mohammed Iqbãl, Juan de la Cruz are some of the authors from whose works he has translated into Portuguese. His books have been translated into Arabic, Romanian, Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Hindi, Swedish, Hungarian, Urdu, Bangla and Latin.
He has received a large number of prizes and distinctions, among which the following can be mentioned: Premio Internazionale di Poesia Cilento, Associazione Cilento di Poesia, Italy, 1999; The “Alphonsus de Guimaraens” Poetry Prize, awarded by The National Library of Brazil, 2006; the “Ars Latina” Essay Prize awarded by the Ars Latina Society in Craiova, Romania, 2009; the “Machado de Assis” Prize, awarded by the Brazilian Writers’ Union, Brazil, 2012; the “Jabuti” Poetry Prize, awarded by the National Book Chamber, Brazil, 2014; the International Latin Culture and Civilization Prize, awarded by the Romanian Academy and the National Museum of Romanian Literature, Romania, 2019.
He is a Comparative Literature Professor at the Arts Faculty of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He got a degree in history from the Federal University of Fluminense, an MA and a PhD degree in the Science of Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship program in the Philosophy of the Renaissance at the University of Köln, Germany. In 2016 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa title from the Tibiscus University in Timișoara and in 2020 a Doctor Honoris Causa from the “Aurel Vlaicu” University in Arad. He was the president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) (the Brazilian Academy of Letters) from 2018 to 2021. He has been occupying the seat number 15 in the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2011.