Lello Voce was born on in Naples, Italy, in 1957 and is an Italian poet, writer, and journalist.
12 Facts About Lello Voce
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Lello Voce was among the founders of Gruppo 93 and of the six-monthly literary magazine Baldus.
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Lello Voce wrote all of his second novel, Cucarachas, live online at www.
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Lello Voce's work has been translated into French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic.
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In 2000, with Nanni Balestrini, Paolo Fabbri, and Sergio Spina, Lello Voce co-wrote the TV programme The Navel of the World, which broadcast from October of that year.
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Lello Voce was the artistic coordinator of the International Venezia Poesia Festival in 1996, directed by Nanni Balestrini.
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Lello Voce worked for UNESCO as Project Leader and Artistic Director of the international rap and hip-hop culture festival Verona Rap.
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Lello Voce was Artistic Director of the 2001,2002,2003 and 2004 editions of the Romapoesia International Festival, as well as the first Italian Poetry Festival in Japan in Tokyo in 2001, along with Nanni Balestrini and Luigi Cinque.
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Lello Voce has been a columnist for the cultural pages of L'Unita, the Giornale di Sardegna, the newspapers of the E-Polis Group, and the monthly magazine Kult.
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Lello Voce collaborated with Verde again to produce the net art work QWERTYU for the website of the international architecture magazine Domus.
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In 2003, Lello Voce was awarded the Delfini Poetry Award for L'esercizio della lingua.
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Lello Voce was the first to introduce Poetry Slams in Italy and he was the first EmCee to organize and lead an international Poetry Slam with poets of no less than seven different languages.