Florent Toniello

Florent Toniello, born in 1972 in Lyon, began his career in the IT sector at a multinational company, working primarily in Brussels. In 2012, he moved to Luxembourg City for family reasons; there, he embarked on a new career as a proofreader, cultural journalist, and poet. He won first prize in Luxembourg’s National Literary Contest in 2015. This was followed by ten poetry collections published in Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, a play, as well as a novel and a collection of science-fiction short stories, all of which often explore themes related to the relationship between humanity and its natural environment. His latest work, *Hraun*, written during a writer’s residency at the Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin, recounts the journey—or ballad—through Iceland of an extraterrestrial entity discovering our planet. He regularly publishes book reviews as well as translations from German, English, Luxembourgish, and even Icelandic in various print and online journals. Committed to the oral tradition, he also enjoys reciting his own poetry and that of others at cultural events and festivals. In addition to his blog, accrocstich.es, he runs the website dailleurspoesie.com, dedicated to Francophone poetry written outside the borders of France.