Antonio D'Alfonso


Antonio D'Alfonso is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions.

Biography

Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal into an Italian-Canadian family. He grew up speaking Italian and attended both English and French schools and became trilingual. He earned a BA from Loyola College and an MA from the Université de Montréal. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. It was successful in promoting English and French language writers and expanded into publishing ethnic minority authors particularly those of Italian backgrounds. D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2009.
As a writer he works in both English and French and has won awards in both. He is also a self-translator who rewrites his work from English to French or vice versa.

Literary awards

Original Books