Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Jonathan Galassi United States

Thursday April 16 - 5.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Premio Cesare De Michelis

Jonathan Galassi

dialogues with  Teresa Cremisi (Editor) and Fiona McCrae (Editor)

In collaboration with GEM, Marsilio Editori

The conversation will be in English

 

Friday April 17

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Poets for Incroci

Jonathan Galassi

Carol Ann Duffy (Great Britain)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, GEM, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Marsilio Editori

Jonathan Galassi started working in publishing in 1973, first at Houghton Mifflin, then at Random House, and since 1986 at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where he has served as editor in chief, publisher, president, chairman, and now chairman emeritus and executive editor. The many American and international writers he has worked with include Michael Cunnnigham, Edmund de Waal, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Thomas L. Friedman, Louise Gluck, Seamus Heaney, Denis Johnson, Jamaica Kiincaid, Alice McDermott, Marilynne Robinson, Roberto Saviano, Scott Turow, Derek Walcott, and Tom Wolfe. He has translated the poetry of Giacomo Lepardi, Primo Levi, and Eugenio Montale and written two novels and four works of poetry. He lives in New York City.