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Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for ''Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present'' () . First published in 1988 during the Cold War, by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY, it was reissued in an all new edition at the dawn of the Iraq War with many women of the Mid-East added, by The Feminist Press of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2003. It was the first book of world literature to gather the global voices of women on the issues of war effecting their lives. It won the American Book Award in 1990. Gioseffi is the editor of Eco-Poetry.org: Climate Justice Literature and Alerts () and PoetsUSA.com, () both of which feature accomplished, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poets. Gioseffi was among the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the main stream of American poetry (). She has published fourteen books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize 1995, and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, 2007. Her verse was chosen to be etched in marble on a wall of the 7th Avenue Concourse of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, with verses by Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams. Gioseffi was featured on the Library of Congress Radio Show, ''The Poet and the Poem'' () sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts in 1996 and 2006. The radio show includes Poets Laureate of the United States and is widely syndicated throughout the country. She has been interviewed and recited poetry on National Public Radio and the BBC in London and Oxford. Gioseffi has presented her work on campuses and in cultural centers throughout the United States and in Europe. ''Women on War'' was translated into German and published in Vienna. Gioseffi’s biography appears in ''Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975''(), an encyclopedia from the University of Illinois Press. She is also included in ''Who's Who in America,'' The ''Directory of American Poets & Writers''(), and ''Contemporary Authors,'' as well as several other sources on the internet. ==Career== A peace and social justice activist, Gioseffi began her career as a Civil Rights worker and journalist for WSLA-TV in Selma, Alabama, in 1961 during the era of the Freedom Riders and Sit-in demonstrations for integration of African Americans into American social institutions and schools. Gioseffi was graduated from Montclair State University in New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, 1963 and awarded a scholarship for academic excellence and acting ability by The National Players to The Catholic University of America where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in World Drama, 1977—and attended with such notables as Susan Sarandon, Academy Award winning actress, and Michael Christopher, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. Gioseffi's first writings were for the stage for which she won an award from The New York State Council for the Arts, funded by The National Endowment for the Arts for her poem-plays ''Care of the Body'' and ''The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep'' in 1971 produced Off Broadway in New York City. They are both feminist in theme. Prior to that she played in classical roles, Shakespeare, Congreve, Molière, with the National Players' Touring Repertory Company out of Washington, D.C. (1964–66.) In 1977. She won a second award grant funded by The New York State Council for the Arts, of The National Endowment for the Arts, for poems contained in her first collection of poetry, ''Eggs in the Lake'',() published by Boa Editions, Ltd. The book was prefaced with an introduction by the accomplished poet, John Logan.() Subsequently, Gioseffi edited ''On Prejudice; A Global Perspective'' (Anchor/Doubleday: NY, 1993) () a book of world literature that was widely used in various universities as a multicultural text for tolerance teaching. It was awarded a Plougshares Peace Foundation grant as was ''Women on War.'' Both compendiums were presented at The United Nations ''On Prejudice; A Global Perspective'', () was translated into Japanese and published in Tokyo where it was also used in colleges and universities to teach tolerance against all forms of xenophobia and mono-culturalism. Gioseffi has published four more collections of poetry, two novels, and a volume of short fiction. () ''Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue'', () a bilingual edition of new and selected poems, translated into Italian by five Italian poets and professors of Italian Language and Literature: Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani by VIA Folios/ Bordighera Press of The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of The City University of New York.(). She was a featured speaker at The First International Women's Book Fair in Barceloma, and at book fairs in Miami, Madrid, Venice, London, and New York City. She served as a poet/consultant to the Poets-in-Public Service program, sponsored by The New York State Council for the Arts, fulfilling residences in Public Schools, Prisons, Senior Centers and Colleges from 1972 to 1986, for which she received a Partner in Education Award from The Board of Education of the City of New York. Before retiring from teaching in 1962, she taught at Brooklyn College, Pace University, New York University’s Publishing Institute, and The Manhattan's College of Visual Arts, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from The Association of Italian American Educators, 2003 (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniela Gioseffi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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