Alessandro Carrera

Alessandro Carrera teaches Italian and comparative literature at the University of Houston in Texas. He is a poet, writer, essayist, translator and music critic. In 1993 he was one of the winners of the Montale Prize, in 1998 he won the Loria Prize for short stories and in 2006 the Bertolucci Prize for literary criticism. His non-fiction books are La voce di Bob Dylan (2001), Lo spazio materno dell’ispirazione (2004), La consistenza del passato (2007), the anthology Parole nel vento, I migliori saggi critici su Bob Dylan (2008) and La consistenza della luce. Il pensiero della natura da Goethe a Calvino (2010). Other books published are A che punto è il Giudizio Universale (1999), the successful La vita meravigliosa dei laureati in lettere (2002) and Skyline (2009). He has translated three of Graham Greene’s novels and all the songs and prose of Bob Dylan.