Rocco CARBONE

Rocco CARBONE
2001
  • Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Italy
Italian

Rocco CARBONE (born 1962, Reggio Calabria) is a literary critic and cultural commentator for Rome's Il Messagero and Naples' Il Mattino, and L'Unita. Dr. Carbone's novels include Agosto (1993), Il Commando (1996) and L'Assedio (The Siege), 1998, and The Apparition, to be published this year. He is taking part in the IWP through the US Department of State.

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  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

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