Frank Coldheart
Frank Coldheart is an Italian born novelist and poet who has written the critically acclaimed novel 'All dwarves are born in Venice' and the collection of poems 'The guardian of the border'. Coldheart's unique style is a blend of a lucid, at times nearly ruthless analysis of our existence and visionary, dark mental snapshots. Some critics have identified Coldheart as the most innovative writer of our time and even labelled him as the new Dostoewskij.
Early Life
Frank Coldheart was born in Pistoia, a small town in Tuscany, to Giancarlo Coldheart and Mara De Gasson. Coldheart spent his childhood in Tuscany and then went to University to Florence where he graduated in Phylosophy with a dissertation on Heidegger and Levinas. At the age of 30 Coldheart moved to London where he still lives and works.
Coldheart started to write when he was very young and a collection of poems from this early period has just been published with the title 'The guardian of the border'. Coldheart's poetry has an incisive and ermetic style with clear influences from Blake, Trakl and Rilke.
Writing Career
In 2009 Coldheart published his first full length novel with the title 'All dwarves are born in Venice' (Il Filo publisher), a metaphisical thriller punctuated with reflections on the meaning of our presence on earth. Acclaimed by the critics, the book is currently being translated in several languages. Currently Coldheart is working on his second novel titled 'The life of John Da Silva' and is about to publish a philosophical essay titled 'Stalemate to the world'.
Influences
Coldheart's work is influenced by a wide range of disciplines and authors, certainly the philosophers of the Western tradition like Plato, Hume, Schopenhauer and Heidegger but also writers such as Dostoewskij, Celine, Auster and Artaud. In Coldheart's poetic the influence of different forms of art is also evident: painting and music above all. Certainly Arvo Part and Bach in music and Bruegel and Bacon in painting have played a significant role in the development of his themes.
Early Life
Frank Coldheart was born in Pistoia, a small town in Tuscany, to Giancarlo Coldheart and Mara De Gasson. Coldheart spent his childhood in Tuscany and then went to University to Florence where he graduated in Phylosophy with a dissertation on Heidegger and Levinas. At the age of 30 Coldheart moved to London where he still lives and works.
Coldheart started to write when he was very young and a collection of poems from this early period has just been published with the title 'The guardian of the border'. Coldheart's poetry has an incisive and ermetic style with clear influences from Blake, Trakl and Rilke.
Writing Career
In 2009 Coldheart published his first full length novel with the title 'All dwarves are born in Venice' (Il Filo publisher), a metaphisical thriller punctuated with reflections on the meaning of our presence on earth. Acclaimed by the critics, the book is currently being translated in several languages. Currently Coldheart is working on his second novel titled 'The life of John Da Silva' and is about to publish a philosophical essay titled 'Stalemate to the world'.
Influences
Coldheart's work is influenced by a wide range of disciplines and authors, certainly the philosophers of the Western tradition like Plato, Hume, Schopenhauer and Heidegger but also writers such as Dostoewskij, Celine, Auster and Artaud. In Coldheart's poetic the influence of different forms of art is also evident: painting and music above all. Certainly Arvo Part and Bach in music and Bruegel and Bacon in painting have played a significant role in the development of his themes.
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