Emilio Isgrò receives the “Montale Fuori Casa” award in Milan

Wednesday 9 November 2022 the artist Emilio Isgrò receives the “Montale Fuori di casa” award in Milan. To earn him the prestigious prize for the “Literature section” was his new conspicuous collection of poems “Sì alla notte”, 265 sonnets composed by Isgrò during the pandemic with the intention of returning to the origins of Italian poetry by recovering a poetic form born in the Sicily of Federico II.

“For the complexity and originality that have distinguished his literary, poetic and narrative as well as artistic work for more than sixty years. For never having betrayed literature but rather having transported its demands into the world of visual arts ”.