A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
2018,
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto,
Italian,
Original title: "Dolore minimo" (Minimal pain) by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto.
The "minimal pain" of the title expresses the complex transsexual condition pronounced with great poetic power, aimed at breaking the wall of silent cultural taboo. The young author tells her luminous rebirth with verses, delicate and very deep at the same time, which made Dacia Maraini and Alessandro Fo talk about a literary phenomenon.
"Minimal pain" is not the manifesto of those who have experienced, growing up, "a rebellious detachment from the flesh, / a fratricidal struggle between spirit / and skin." It is the viaticum of anyone who wants to savor a powerful poem that delicately offers the reader a paradigm to orient himself in the infinite, wonderful confusion of existence.
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto was born in Sicily in 1994. She currently lives in Rome, where she graduated from Sapienza University with a degree in modern philology. Dolore Minimo (Minimal Pain), published in 2018, is her first book, and the first collection of Italian poetry to address the subject of transsexuality. With an introduction by Dacia Maraini and an afterword by Alessandro Fo, the book was featured in Italy’s major newspapers and won several prizes, including the Viareggio Opera Prima in 2019 for best debut.
In February 2020, BUR Rizzoli published Giovanna’s second book of poems, Dove non siamo stati (Where We Have Not Been).
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