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Campiello Prize
The ''Premio Campiello'' is an annual Italian literary prize. A Jury of Literary Experts (''Giuria di letterati'' in Italian) identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books are called ''Premio Selezione Campiello''. Then a jury of 300 readers (called ''Giuria dei 300 lettori'') representing different social, cultural and professional groups from each region of Italy, each with one vote, decides the winner of the selection. Since 2004, the Jury of Literary Experts awards a ''Premio Campiello Opera Prima'' for the best debut. History In 1962 Confindustria Veneto was seeking a contact between business and the literary sector and decided to formulate a literary prize. The first award was given to Primo Levi for his autobiographical book '' La tregua'', translated in Britain as ''The Truce'' and in the United States as ''Reawakening''. The ceremony took place in Venice's '' Teatro Verde'' on the island of San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize ( Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianna Manzini
Gianna Manzini (March 24, 1896 – August 31, 1974) was an Italian writer whose ''Ritratto in piedi'' won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father, an Italian anarchist. After several banishments for his political activities, her anarchist father was exiled to the small hilltop town of Cutigliano in 1921, 25 km northwest of Pistoia, where he would die of a heart attack in 1925 after being chased by fascist hoodlums. Biography Gianna Manzini was born in Pistoia. Her mother was Leonilda Mazzoncini, born December 22, 1864 in Pistoia, and her father Giuseppe Manzini, born October 7, 1853 originally from Modena. Her childhood in Pistoia was spent in the anxious company of her mother's family who, disapproving of her anarchist father's beliefs and activities, was instrumental in causing her parents to separate. Gianna and her mother lived with her mother's two sisters, and Gianna's father lived in a rented room in Pistoia and had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of ''saudade'', of ''fiction'' and of the '' heteronyms''. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, he translated many works by Pessoa into Italian and has written a book of essays and a comedy about the writer. Tabucchi was awarded the French prize "Médicis étranger" for '' Indian Nocturne'' (''Notturno indiano'') and the premio Campiello, and the Aristeion Prize for '' Sostiene Pereir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sostiene Pereira (novel)
''Pereira Maintains'' ( it, Sostiene Pereira) is a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is also known as ''Pereira Declares'' and ''Declares Pereira''. Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the dictatorial regime of Antonio Salazar. Antonio Tabucchi won the Premio Campiello, Viareggio Prize and Premio Scanno in 1994 for the novel. It was adapted into a film, also called ''Sostiene Pereira'', in 1996. Plot The novel is set in Portugal in the summer of 1938, during Salazar's dictatorship. Pereira, an old journalist on a Portuguese newspaper - the ''Lisboa'' - who loves literature and practically gives his life to it. When he reads an essay written by a young man about death, he calls the young man, whose name is Monteiro Rossi, to ask him to write "advance obituaries" about great writers who could die at any moment. Not having ever been much concerned w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini (; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for ''L'età del malessere'' (1963); the Premio Fregene for ''Isolina'' (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for ''La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa'' (1990); and the Premio Strega for ''Buio'' (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary ''I Was Born Travelling'' told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. In 2020 she adheres to Empathism. Life and career Early life Maraini was born in Fiesole, Tuscany. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Duranti
Francesca Duranti (born January 2, 1935) is an Italian writer. Personal life and education She was born Francesca Rossi in Genoa and received a law degree from the University of Pisa. She married Enrico Magnini in 1956; they had one child and separated in 1960. She married Massimo Duranti, they had one child and divorced in 1976. Writing career She began writing during the 1970s. Her first novel ''La bambina'' was published in 1976. In 1978, she published ''Piazza mia bella piazza'', followed by ''La casa sul lago della luna'', which received the Bagutta Prize and the Premio Martina Franca, in 1984. In 1988, Duranti published ''Effetti personali'', which received the Premio Campiello The ''Premio Campiello'' is an annual Italian literary prize. A Jury of Literary Experts (''Giuria di letterati'' in Italian) identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books ar .... Her work explores the interactions betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Ongaro '', and he also wrote historical and adventure books, including ''La taverna del doge Loredan'' (1980), ''La partita'' (1986) and ''Il ponte della solita ora'' (2006). Ongaro died in Venice on 23 March 2018, aged 92.
Alberto Ongaro (22 August 1925 – 23 March 2018), also known by his pseudonym Alfredo Nogara, was an Italian journalist, writer and comics writer. Biography Born in Venice, Italy, he lived for a long time in South America and England, before returning to Venice in 1979. A friend and collaborator of Hugo Pratt, he also worked for ''Il Corriere dei Piccoli''. As a journalist, he was a foreign correspondent of ''L'Europeo ''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti. References External links < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre. Life and career Born at Melfi, in the province of Potenza, he moved to Rome at young age. He started as a writer and literary critic. ''La nonna Sabella'', one of his novels, was later adapted by Dino Risi into the movie of the same name, internationally known as '' Oh! Sabella'' (1957). He began his cinema career as a screenwriter with ''Faddija – La legge della vendetta'' (1949) by Roberto Bianchi Montero and later co-produced masterpieces of Italian cinema such as ''Poveri ma belli'' (1957) by Risi and '' Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) and '' The Leopard'' (1963) by Luchino Visconti. His first film as a director was ''A Sentimental Attempt'' (1963), along with Massimo Franciosa. Subsequently he made many films of the commedia all'italiana genre, including ''La Matriarca'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino (; Comiso, Italy, 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer. Biography Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown, for most of his life. Immediately after World War II, he had to spend some time in a hospital for tuberculosis; hence he drew the material for the novel ''Diceria dell'untore'' (''The Plague Sower''). The book was written in 1950 and completed in 1971, but was published only in 1981, thanks to Bufalino's friend and well-known writer Leonardo Sciascia who discovered his talents. ''Diceria dell'untore'' won the Premio Campiello. In 1988, the novel ''Le menzogne della notte'' (''Night's Lies'') won the Strega Prize. In 1990 he won the Nino Martoglio International Book Award. In his native town the ''Biblioteca di Bufalino'' ("Bufalino's Library") is now named after him. Bibliography Works available in English * ''The Plague Sower'', translated by Stephen Sart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Arpino
Giovanni Arpino (27 January 1927 – 10 December 1987) was an Italian writer and journalist. Life Born in Pula-Croatia to Piedmontese parents, Arpino moved to Bra in the Province of Cuneo. Here he married Caterina Brero before moving to Turin, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He graduated in 1951 with a thesis on the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and the following year made his literary debut with the novel ''Sei stato felice, Giovanni'', published by Einaudi. He took up sports journalism, writing for the daily papers ''La Stampa'' and '' Il Giornale''; together with Gianni Brera at the '' La Gazzetta dello Sport'' he brought a new literary quality to Italian writing on sport. His most important work in this line was the 1977 football novel ''Azzurro tenebra''. In Italy he got to know the Argentinian writer and fellow sports enthusiast Osvaldo Soriano. Arpino also wrote plays, short stories, epigrams and stories for children. He won the Strega Prize in 1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern (1 November 1921 – 16 June 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran. Ansa.it Biography He was born and grew up on the Asiago plateau in North East Italy. In 1938, after being rejected for service in the Navy, he enrolled in the tough advanced climbing/alpinism course in the Aosta Valley where Renato Chabod was among his teachers. Only four students graduated in that year. When German troops marched on Paris, his regiment was ordered to invade France from the Aosta Valley over the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Granzotto
Gianni Granzotto (1914–1985) was an Italian military, writer, journalist and war correspondent. He was president of the Italian arm of ''Reuters'' between 1976 and 1985. Biography From a Friulian family, Gianni Granzotto was born before the first World War in Padova on 12 January 1914, but spent his youth in Bologna, where he graduated in the Arts in 1936 with a thesis on Italo Svevo. In that same year, as a volunteer in Africa Orientale (what was the Italian East Africa) with the student battalion "Battaglione Universitario, Curtatone e Montanara", he took the first steps in his journalism career as a correspondent for the Turin daily newspaper '' Gazzetta del Popolo''. Once back in Italy, Gianni was appointed director of the Bologna magazine '' The Assault'' (founded in 1920), followed by twenty-five years at the Genoese newspaper '' The Work''. On the outbreak of World War II, he fulfilled his military obligations by overseeing military magazines (as Director of ''Foreig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
