Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. 1959-60: Saint Aloysius Elementary.1960-64: Saint-Finbarr Elementary.1964-66: Saint-Michel Elementary.1966-70: John F. Kennedy High School.1970-72: Loyola College1972-75: Loyola College/Concordia University. B.A. (Communication Arts)1976-79: Université de Montréal. M.Sc. (Communication Science).2007-:2012: University of Toronto. PhD. Italian Studies (Film).In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions, where he edited over 450 hundred books by authors from around the world. He passed the press on in 2010.Awards1987: L’autre rivage: finalist for the Prix Émile Nelligan.1998: L’apostrophe qui me scinde: finalist of the Prix Saint Sulpice.2000: Fabrizio’s Passion: wins the Bressani Award.2002: Comment ça se passe: finalist of the Trillium Award.2003: La passione di Fabrizio wins Internazionale emigrazione in Italy.2005: Un vendredi du mois d’août wins The Ontario Trillium Award. (27 Avril 2005)2008: L’aimé wins the Christine Dimitriu Van Saanen Award.2010: Feature film Bruco wins two awards at the New York International Film And Video Festival (Los Angeles): Best Foreign Film and Best International Director of a Featurefilm.2012: Antigone wins the Bronze Award at the Prestige Film Festival.He writes in English, French and Italian. He lives in Montreal and Toronto.