Lavinia Capogna Bio.
Lavinia Capogna Bio
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Copyright ©Lavinia Capogna was born in Rome, Italy. Her father was film director Sergio Capogna, her mother was film producer Giuliana Scappino, and her grandmother was the poet Giulia Scappino Murena.
She lived in Rome, Bracciano and Bologna.
At age 22 she studied film screenwriting with Ugo Pirro, a famous screenwriter, and for many years classical guitar with Griselda Ponce De León, an Argentine student of Andrés Segovia, and classical piano with Swiss pianist Isabelle Binet.
In 1991, at the age of 28, she published a book of short stories "Il signor Mario" (Mr. Mario - which she had written between the ages of 15 and 27) whose original title was "Storie fatte di niente" (Stories Made of Nothing). The book was also published in France in 2014 under the title "Histoires pour rien".
The well-known writer Didier Hermand kindly wrote the "wrapper" in which it reads:
"Between nostalgia and lucidity, a door opens on childhood and lets in scents of the past, bright and wise memories that take us back to a time when everything seemed possible."
One of the stories was among five finalists for the 1992 Il Ceppo Literary Prize in Pistoia. The book will soon be republished under its original title, "Storie fatte di niente. Racconti scritti tra i 17 e i 27 anni" (Stories Made of Nothing: Tales written between the ages of 17 and 27)
Alternating between directing and writing at age 24 Lavinia directed the Super 8 medium-length film "Ciao, Francesca," starring Francesca D'Amico, Livia Bonifazi, Marco and Carlo Campanella and at 28 the big screen film "La lampada di Wood" (Wood's Lamp) starring Sophie Renoir, Béatrice Joinet, Silvio Piersanti, and Giuditta Saltarini and set in Bologna. Lavinia wrote the screenplay for both films.
One of the films entered the Agrigento Film Festival directed by Michele Placido and was nominated for a “David di Donatello” in 1994. Her films have had excellent reviews by prestigious film scholars such as Fabio Melelli, Dario Zanelli, and Domenico Monetti.
She later made several documentaries including "Aspettando Nelson Mandela" (Waiting for Nelson Mandela), "Una domenica al Covent Garden" (A Sunday at Covent Garden), "Rote Fabrik, Zürich" and others.
She recently made ten videos of her poems in Italian and English with the kind collaboration of actor and voice actor Lisa Genovese (with whom she had already worked in 1992) and musician Francesco Di Giovanni.
At the age of 45, she was working on a new film (for which she had written a screenplay about the German writer Klaus Mann) when she fell ill with a serious physical illness that left her disabled and interrupted her film work, still despite this, she continued to write (except in the most arduous years of her illness).
Over the past two decades, she has written about 150 articles on literary topics for some websites.
She is fluent in English, French, and a little German.
She wrote the novel "Il giovane senza nome" (The Nameless Young Man) published in 2023.
She wrote the poetry collection: "Un navigante senza bussola e senza stelle" (A Sailor Without a Compass and Without Stars) published in 2022 (PAV Editions) with a kind Preface by famous poet Grazia Procino.
The book had a very good review by essayist Marina Caracciolo, author of several works and translator from German.
Some of her poems were published in Elio Pecora's magazine, "Poets and Poetry."
In 2024 she published an essay, titled "Pagine Sparse - Studi Letterari (Scattered Pages - Literary Studies) with various texts on various artists.
And two new poetry collections: "Pensieri cristallini" (Crystalline Thoughts) and "La nostalgia delle 6 del mattino" (Nostalgia at 6 a.m.).
She is currently working on a new book of poems.
