Cristina AnninoArtist, poetess, short-story teller and one-time novelist, Cristina Annino (nèe Fratini) was born in Arezzo, Italy, studied at the University of Florence and wrote her dissertation on the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Having begun to write poetry in cildhood, she gravitated toward avant-garde circles in the 1960s, such as Gruppo '70, and lived and studied in Spain. Her first collection of poetry, Non me lo dire, non posso crederci / Don't tell me, I can't believe it, was published in 1969 with a preface by Eugenio Miccini. Her next, published in 1977, was Ritratto di un Amico Paziente / Portrait of a Friend Patient. The third, L'Udito Cronico / Chronic Hearing, lends its title to the present volume, which contains selections from seven collections. Madrid won the Premio di Poesia Pozzale Luigi Russo in 1988; Magnificat won the Premio Lorenzo Montano in 2010. Her most recent volume of poetry, Chanson Turca, was published in 2012. She lives and works in Rome. Read More Read Less