ELISABETTA BAGLI

Elisabetta Bagli was born in Rome and lives in Madrid. She is a translator, writer, poet, essayist, columnist, radio correspondent, event organizer, and representative of numerous Spanish, Italian and international cultural associations. She is President of LATIUM, an association created to promote Roman and Lazio regional culture. She is co-founder of the International Collective Mosaicos y Letras, based in Río Tercero, Córdoba (Argentina). She has collaborated and continues to collaborate with Com.It.Es Madrid and with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Madrid in the organization of cultural events.

She collaborates with the Italian newspaper La Voce d’Italia, the voice of Italians abroad (Madrid editorial office); with Ciao Magazine (Cambridge), where she directs the Spanish-language section; with Italine of Prague, published by AIM (Associazione Italiani nel Mondo); with Letras de Parnaso (Murcia), a cultural magazine; with Verbum (Rome), a cultural magazine; with Pluma y Tintero (Madrid), a cultural magazine; and with Papel y Lápiz (Ipiales, Nariño, Colombia).

Her work has received international awards and has been translated and published in several languages. She is the translator of many poetry and narrative books for various authors. She is the author of poetry books, short story collections, a fairy tale, articles and essays for newspapers and magazines.

She is an honorary member of several Italian and international institutions, including the NGO THRibune (Tribune for Human Rights), based in Madrid, and the Maison Naaman pour la Culture, based in Lebanon.

She has received several recognitions, including: the “Light of Galata” Award for Art, Culture and Tourism of Istanbul (2021); the “Città del Galateo” Award for Excellence in Culture in Rome (Società Dante Alighieri, 2021); the Hypatia of Alexandria Award at the ARTE 2022 Awards, organized by ArteAhora, the Spanish Academy of Modern Literature, the National and International Academy of Poetry of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics, and TV Mundo Digital; and the Moutzan-Martinegou Award from the Centro Culturale di Zante “Dionysios Romas” and the Xenopouleio Library Association (2023).

Since 2021, she has been an associate member of the ANLMI (North American Academy of International Modern Literature), based in New Jersey, through the Delegation of the Kingdom of Spain – Madrid. In 2022, she received the high honor of being appointed Dame of AICACE (International Academy of Science, Art, Culture and Education), based in Mexico.

In 2023, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) by the International Forum for Creativity and Humanity, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Association of Free Moroccans to Advocate National Territorial Unity, and the Global Arab Media Work.

She is president and jury member of Italian and international literary competitions. In 2019, she was distinguished with the award Outstanding Woman in Culture by the Latin American Women’s Forum of Mar del Plata (Argentina). In the same year, the Italian Ambassador Stefano Sannino awarded her the Prize for Italianness in Culture. She received the Naji Naaman Literary Prize in Lebanon in 2020.

Her most recent publications include:

• Mucho más que el sol – Molto più del sole, published by the Colombian publishing house Papel y Lápiz (2022), bilingual Spanish–Italian;
• Ακαταμάχητος έρωτας (Travolgente come l’amore), published by the Greek publishing house Ammon Books (2022, Greece), bilingual Greek–Italian;
• Capable of Eternity, published by the Turkish publishing house Artshop (2022, Turkey), bilingual Turkish–English;
• Lïre për të jetuar, published by the Albanian publishing house Bogdani (2023, Kosovo);
• Las sombras amargas – Le ombre amare, published by Papel y Lápiz (2024);
• БЕСПЛАТНО ДОВЕ – Елисабетта Багли, published by Arka Publishing House / Serbian publisher Arpa, Belgrade (Serbia), 2024 (English–Serbian bilingual);
• СЛОБОДНО ДА ЖИВЕЕШ (North Macedonia), published for the International Poetry Festival Karamanov Prize, 2024;
• Donde nace mi nombre – Dove nasce il mio nome, Papel y Lápiz Publishing House, Ipiales, Nariño, Colombia, 2025 (Spanish–Italian bilingual);
• L’eco tra gli ulivi, Cosmolibri Edizioni, a poetry collection written with the Greek poet Sofia Skleida, Amazon 2026 (Italian–Greek bilingual).

She is the official translator and collaborator of the Colombian publishing house Papel y Lápiz (Ipiales, Nariño), the Argentine publishing house Arte sin Aduanas (Mar del Plata), and the British publishing house Ciao Publishing (Cambridge).