Carmine Loru Non-Member Joined 2026

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Carmine Loru is a Sardinian poet born in Alghero in 1981 and based in South London since 2010. He holds an MA in Classics from the University of Florence, with a specialisation in Archaeology and the History of Greek Art. He writes in Sardinian, Italian, Alguerés Catalan and English. He won the 2025 Antonio Gramsci Literary Prize for Sardinian poetry. His work has appeared in Asymptote, L’Altrove, and literary magazines in Hungary and Serbia, and is held in the National Poetry Library’s Endangered Poetry Project in London. His debut collection, De Rodiamentos e Rivolutziones, in a bilingual Sardinian-Italian version, received a Special Mention at the 2026 Arcipelago itaca National Poetry Prize in Italy. An Arts Council England DYCP grant currently supports his development as a multilingual poet in the UK and the translation of his work into English.

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London, England

Birthdate:

31 January (45 years old)

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