Arturo Vivante (October 17, 1923 in

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– April 1, 2008 in

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) was an Italian American fiction writer. He was the son of Elena (née de Bosis), a painter, and Leone Vivante, a philosopher. The family fled to England in 1938, anticipating the war and the fascist government's anti-Semitic policies (Leone was Jewish). The British sent Arturo to an internment camp in Canada while his family remained in England for the duration of the war."Arturo Vivante, 84", ''Provincetown Banner'', Apr 10th, 2008
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in 1944 and received his medical degree at University of Rome in 1949. He practiced medicine in Rome until 1958, but thereafter moved to New York to pursue writing full-time. He married Nancy Adair Bradish (died 5 July 2002) in 1958. In 1982, he appeared at the University of North Dakota Writers Conference. In addition to writing numerous short stories and three novels, Vivante taught writing courses at various colleges from 1968 to 1993, including the

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, and

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. After publication of his final book in 2006, he retired and lived in

until his death two years later. His work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'' over 70 times, as well as other magazines including ''AGNI'', ''Vogue'', ''The New York Times'', ''London Magazine'', ''The Guardian'', ''Antaeus'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Santa Monica Review'', and ''The Southern Review''. His fiction often drew from autobiographical experiences with attention to the subtlest details of reflective observation.

Awards

* 1976 Italian Communication Award * 1979

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grant * 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship * 2004 Richard Sullivan Prize for short fiction * 2006 Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction

Works

*''A Goodly Babe'' (novel) Little, Brown: 1966. *''The French Girls of Killini'' (short stories) Little Brown; 1967. *''Doctor Giovanni'' (novel) Little, Brown; 1969. *''English Stories'' Street Fiction, 1975. *''Run to the Waterfall'' (short stories) Scribner: 1979. *''Writing Fiction'' Writing. Inc.: 1980. *''The Tales of Arturo Vivante'', selected and with an introduction by Mary Kinzie, The Sheep Meadow Press; 1990. *''Solitude and Other Stores'' (short stories) University of Notre Dame Press; 2004. *''Truelove Knot,'' University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vivante, Arturo 1923 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Italian Jews Italian male writers Jewish American writers McGill University alumni Sapienza University of Rome alumni University of Iowa faculty Bennington College faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty University of Michigan staff Italian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews