Informazioni
- Datazione: 1921-?
- Luogo di nascita: Rovereto (Trentino)
- Note biografiche: Enoe Di Stefano trained as a primary school teacher in Italy before emigrating. In Australia she has worked as a teacher of Italian and organiser of Italian language classes. Her poem Ombre [Shadows] won second prize in a national literary contest in Milan in 1972 and she has won a number of prizes in Italy for her short stories. The story, L'Ultima Nave [The Last Ship], was awarded second prize for narrative by the Dante Alighieri Society of Bari in December 1985 as the result of the world-wide competition La Dante Alighieri e L'Emigrazione Italiana nel Mondo. Another short story, Il Debito [The Duty], was awarded third prize at the 1987 Campania Felix competition held by the Accademia Internazionale di San Marco di Belle Arti Lettere e Scienze. She also has several completed paintings to her credit. She has been active in various community organisations, having been responsible for the direction of the CO AS IT schools between 1968 and 1982. For the three years from 1976 to 1978, she was a member of the Multicultural Education sub-committee of the Australian Council for Ethnic Affairs. In 1979 she was awarded an MBE.
In 1996, Enoe and Alfie Di Stefano took part in a series of interviews about migrant experiences titled Tales from a Suitcase, which was produced as a video cassette by SBS Independent productions .
Altra biografia (sett. 2013)
Enoe Raffaelli Di Stefano was born in Rovereto in 1921. After obtaining a primary-teaching diploma, she emigrated to Sydney in 1949. She became a well-known personality in the Italian-Australian community through her work with the Italian-language newspaper La Fiamma, as a broadcaster for community radio programs, and as a driving force in the promotion of Italian-language classes for second-generation Italian-Australian children. Her artistic aspirations found expression in painting as well as in the production of poetry and prose, gaining her recognition as one of the leading first-generation Italian-Australian writers.
While Di Stefano’s narrative presents an investigation of the diaspora experience based on sociocultural parameters and with generally positive outcomes, her poetry is a detailed, sensitively expressed lyric diary that presents a complex and not always positive comparison of the ambience, the traditions, the temporal and natural spaces of her native land and those of her adopted country. From nostalgia for Italy to appraisal of the new country, her first two volumes, Terra australis (Di Stefano 1970) and Voci di lontananza [Voices Far Away] (Di Stefano 1978), express feelings and reflections triggered by the experiences of the migrant: the temporal dislocation of the physical and metaphysical journey that marks the transition from Italy to Australia; the strange and different material and spiritual facets of the new country; the memory of pre-migration places and experiences.
Vedi: Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology
LUIGI BONAFFINI
JOSEPH PERRICONE
Copyright Date: 2014
Published by: Fordham University Press
Pages: 1115
