Remigio Bertolino

Remigio Bertolino writes in the dialect of Montaldo di Mondovì, where he was born in 1948. He is by far the most famous among today’s Piedmontese poets, so much so that the adjective could be considered restrictive. The contemplation of the constant presence of death and poverty in the lives of his characters, often poor peasants of the mountain valleys, is accompanied by the presence of grace that at times is revealed in destitute houses, desolate country villages, or wintry landscapes and the woods. The memory of a grave personal loss has haunted his poetry since the beginning. His books are L’eva d’ënvern (It was in Winter) (1986), Sbaluch (Sparkle) (1989), Ël vos (The Voices) (2003), Stanse d’ënvern (Rooms in Winter) (2006), Versi scelti (1976-2009) (Selected Poems) (2010), La fin dël mond (The end of the World) (2013), Litre d’ënvern (Winter Letters) (2015), Nivole da prim (Spring Clouds) (2019), Ùltime reuse (Last Roses) (2021), and L’eva dël temp (The Water of Time) (2025).