Daniele Del Giudice (11 January 1949 – 2 September 2021) was an Italian author and lecturer. He lived in
Venice
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, where he taught theatrical literature at the
University Iuav of Venice.
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Biography
Born in Rome in 1949, Del Giudice researched avant-garde theatre first in Wrocław, Poland, and later political theatre, focusing on Italian actor Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
. He also worked for various newspapers, becoming an established essayist and literary critic. His first novel in 1983, ''Lo stadio di Wimbledon'' (''Wimbledon stadium'') told the story of writer Roberto Balzen, who gives up writing to lead an active life. The novel was made into a film in 2002. Del Giudice died on 2 September 2021 at the age of 72.
Prizes
*Viareggio Prize
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(1983) (Opera Prima Narrativa)
*Bergamo Prize (1986)
* Bagutta Prize (1995)
*Flaiano Prize
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Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Fla ...
(1995)
*Selezione Premio Campiello
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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 ...
(1995, 1997)
* Feltrinelli Prize (2002)
* European Union Prize for Literature (2009)
List of works
* ''Lo stadio di Wimbledon'' (1983)
* ''Atlante occidentale'' (1985) Translated by Norman MacAfee and Luigi Fontanella as ''Lines of Light'' (1988)
* ''Nel museo di Reims'' (1988)
* ''Taccuino Australe'' (1990) A 6-part diary of a journey to Antarctica, published in ''Corriere della Sera
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First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of I ...
'' and ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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''Biografia Daniele Del Giudice
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* ''Staccando l'ombra da terra'' (1994) Translated by Joseph Farrell as ''Takeoff: The Pilot's Lore'' (1996)
* ''Mania'' (1997)
* ''Orizzonte mobile'' (2009)
References
External links
Daniele del Giudice
biography
1949 births
2021 deaths
Italian male writers
Writers from Rome
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