Tiziano Thomas Dossena is an Italian American author and art critic.
Biography
Born in Milan on 19 September 1952, Tiziano Thomas Dossena moved to the United States in 1968 and completed his studies in that country, where he graduated in Italian Literature, Humanistic Studies, Environmental Science and Engineering Technology. Repatriated to Italy in 1978, Dossena devoted himself to theater and poetry, attending at the same time the Faculty of Medicine. Articles, essays, poems and interviews of Dossena were published in numerous magazines and anthologies in Italy, France, Greece, Switzerland and the United States. In 1990 he assumed the role of Editorial Director of the L'Idea Magazine and contributor to USA Bridge Apulia, Tiziano Thomas Dossena has represented the Italian community in the Italian Government as Consigliere and Secretary of COM.IT.ES. in New York and Connecticut. The dynamic writer and art critic, the son of the famous artist Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, also contributed to the virtual magazine Racconti e Letteratura with a series of articles on the life of Italians in New York.
Critics' comments
"His poetry is vibrant with human ideals and feelings that well harmonize the high ideals with the melody of the verse"
"Dossena's poems breathe pure air and endless blue skies and while interwoven with high social content, capture the tears of men and the beauty of the cosmos in a blend of rich harmonies "
" His poetry model is based on the vivacity of youthful feelings, well framed aesthetically and structurally sound, although admirable, daring and stormy "
Regarding the story "The philosopher", Renata Morresi wrote: "Do not miss this little cult: an eco-thriller with political fiction developments,written with style tight and incisive, full of suspense, and above all irony, irony, irony."
"Tiziano Thomas Dossena, who has lived for years in the United States, is the author of interesting essays and winner, among other things, of the first prize for journalism Emigrazione"
"Caro Fantozziis not an icy and anodyne summa of his works, but a delicate mixture of feelings. A collection of short stories, embellished by the fil rouge of feelings, emotions, sentiments, precisely, the singularity of which, whether it's fiction, creative writing and imagination, or "tranche de vie" therefore "real life", is the clever narrative : a mix of finesse d'esprit, irony and self-mockery, divertissement, reflection, introspection, split-soaked existential pain, joy, loss, nostalgia, spleen, melancholy, happiness, bewilderment, despair, rebirth."
Awards
Dossena has won many awards and records of merit, both for poetry and for fiction, including the first prize for essays "De Finibus Terrae", the first prize "Coppa del Mare", Prize for Fiction "Citta` di Modica", the top prize for journalism "Emigrazione", the second prize "Voci Nostre" in poetry, the second prize for poetry "Noi e Gli Altri" and the third prize for poetry at the "Biennale di Boniprati". Winner of the 2012 Globo Tricolore Award,similar to an Oscar for famous Italians abroad who are unknown in their homeland.
