Paola Maria Minucci

Paola Maria Minucci is an Associate Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where she has worked since 1981. She studied Italian Literature at the University of Florence and Modern Greek Literature at the University of Rome. She completed her studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Her body of work includes a series of critical articles and essays on Modern Greek literature, focusing on comparative analyses between 20th-century Italian and Modern Greek poetry (Cavafy-Ungaretti, Elytis-Ungaretti-Blake). He was particularly involved in the translation of modern Greek literary works, mainly poetry, editing anthologies of the most important poets of the 20th century (Elytis, Sachtooris, Dimoulas, Patrikios, Meskos, Ganas, Cavafy, Pieris), as well as prose writers (Vassilikos, Tachtsis, Valtinos), often introducing writers to Italy for the first time who subsequently achieved notable distinction.

He has also engaged with the theoretical aspects of translation in various essays in which he acknowledges the critical value of the translation process. In 2006, she won the Ministry of Culture’s State Prize for the Translation of Greek Literature into a Foreign Language for the book by Od. Elytis, La materia leggera – Pittura e purezza nell’arte contemporanea, Donzelli Editore, Rome, 2005. In 2007, she won the State Prize from the Italian Ministry of Culture for her entire body of work.