Jolanda Insana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jolanda Insana

Italian poet

Date of Birth: 18-May-1937

Place of Birth: Messina, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 27-Oct-2016

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jolanda Insana (18 May 1937 – 27 October 2016) was an Italian poet and translator. Born in Messina, in 1968 Insana moved to Rome where she graduated in Ancient Literature with a thesis on Erinna's The Distaff.
Active as translator of classical and contemporary authors, she debuted as a poet in 1977, with the collection Sciarra amara ("Bitter Harvest").
In 2002 she won the Viareggio Prize for poetry for La stortura.Giovanni Raboni described Insana's poetic style as "visionary concreteness".