Jolanda Insana (18 May 1937 – 27 October 2016) was an Italian poet and translator. Born in Messina, in 1968 Insana moved to

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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".

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1937 births 2016 deaths Writers from Messina Italian women poets 20th-century Italian poets 21st-century Italian poets Viareggio Prize winners Sapienza University of Rome alumni 20th-century Italian women writers 20th-century Italian translators 21st-century Italian women writers {{Italy-writer-stub