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A Time To Kill (Flaiano Novel)
''A Time to Kill'' (), published in the United States as ''The Short Cut'', is a 1947 novel by the Italian writer Ennio Flaiano. It is about an Italian lieutenant during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War who tells how he accidentally killed an Ethiopian girl while on leave and struggles with guilt. The book received the Strega Prize. It was adapted into the 1989 film '' Time to Kill'' directed by Giuliano Montaldo Giuliano Montaldo (22 February 1930 – 6 September 2023) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known internationally for his biographical docudrama Sacco & Vanzetti (1971 film), ''Sacco & Vanzetti'' (1971), which was n .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Time to Kill (Flaiano novel), A 1947 Italian novels Italian novels adapted into films Strega Prize–winning works Novels set in Ethiopia Novels set in colonial Africa First-person narrative novels Books by Ennio Flaiano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Flaiano
Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including ''La Strada'' (1954), ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), and ''8½'' (1963). He received the 1947 Strega Prize for his novel '' A Time to Kill''. Life and career Flaiano was born in Pescara. He wrote for ''Cineillustrato'', '' Oggi'', '' Il Mondo'', '' Il Corriere della Sera'', '' Omnibus'', and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines. In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel '' Tempo di uccidere'' (variously translated as ''Miriam'', ''A Time to Kill'', and ''The Short Cut''). Set in the Italian Eritrea during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that started the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who rapes and subsequently kills an Eritrean woman and is then tormented by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longanesi
Longanesi, also known as Longanesi & C., is a publishing house based in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1946 by Leo Longanesi and industrialist Giovanni Monti.Nanni Delbecchi (13 May 2016). "Longanesi fa settanta. Il 'Dottor Naso' aveva fiuto". ''Il Fatto Quotidiano''. p. 20. It initially got a large success thanks to some editorial series such as '' La buona società'' and ''La gaia scienza''. After a period of crisis, Longanesi was relaunched by Mario Spagnol (1930–1999) through the acquisition of some prestigious publishing houses such as ''Guanda'', ''Salani'' and ''Corbaccio'' and through some successful ventures in the field of paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, ...s. Book series References External links * Book publishing companies of Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month, previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. In 1932, the department was eliminated as an economic measure. However, within a year, Louise Raymond, the secretary Kirkus hired, had the department running again. Kirkus, however, had left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Fascist Italy, Italy against Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion (; Oromo language, Oromo: Weerara Xaaliyaanii), and in Italy as the Ethiopian War (). It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterized the Axis powers and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations before the outbreak of World War II. On 3 October 1935, two hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Army commanded by Marshal Emilio De Bono attacked from Italian Eritrea, Eritrea (then an Italian colonial possession) without prior declaration of war. At the same time a minor force under General Rodolfo Graziani attacked from Italian Somalia. On 6 October, Adwa was conquered, a symbolic place for the Italian army because of the defeat at the Battle of Adwa by the Ethiopian ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Italicum
''Forum Italicum'', subtitled as, A Journal of Italian Studies, is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers twice a year in the field of Cultural Studies and Italian Studies. The journal's Editor is Giuseppe Gazzola (Stony Brook University, New York). It has been in publication since 1967 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University, New York. Scope ''Forum Italicum'' is a journal of Italian Studies, intended as a place where scholars, critics, and teachers can present their views on the literature, language, and culture of Italy and other countries in relation to Italy. Abstracting and indexing ''Forum Italicum'' is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: :* Scopus :* Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) :* MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strega Prize
The Strega Prize ( ) is the most important Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 March of the previous year and 28/29 February. History In 1944 Maria and Goffredo Bellonci started to host a literary salon at their home in Rome. These Sunday gatherings of writers, artists and intellectuals grew to include many of the most notable figures of Italian cultural life. The group became known as the ''Amici della Domenica'', or ‘Sunday Friends’. In 1947 the Belloncis, together with Guido Alberti, owner of the firm which produces the Strega liqueur, decided to inaugurate a prize for fiction, the winner being chosen by the Sunday friends. The activities of the Bellonci circle and the institution of the prize were seen as marking a tentative return to ‘normality’ in Italian cultural life: a feature of the reconstruction which fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time To Kill (1989 Film)
''Time to Kill'' () is a 1989 in film, 1989 Italian historical drama film starring Nicolas Cage, and Italian actors Ricky Tognazzi and Giancarlo Giannini. It is directed by Giuliano Montaldo. The film is set in 1936, when Ethiopia Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was Italian East Africa, under Italian invasion, and was filmed in Zimbabwe. It is based on A Time to Kill (Flaiano novel), the novel with the same name written by Ennio Flaiano. Plot Lieutenant Silvestri suffers a toothache and decides to head to the a camp hospital at a nearby construction site. En route to the camp his vehicle has an accident and stops near a rock; Silvestri continues by walking, but no physician is found at the construction site. He is directed by a young man on an allegedly shorter route to the main camp, and on his way through the jungle he meets and rapes a young Ethiopian woman. She stays with him afterwards and he gives her his watch as a present. While they take refuge in a cave Silvestri shoots at a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo (22 February 1930 – 6 September 2023) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known internationally for his biographical docudrama Sacco & Vanzetti (1971 film), ''Sacco & Vanzetti'' (1971), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and the historical miniseries ''Marco Polo (mini-series), Marco Polo'' (1982), which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. He served as the 5th President of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Biography Early life and career Montaldo was born in Genoa in 1930. He had his first acting experiences in "mass theatre" productions conducted by the Italian Communist Party. While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for a role in the war drama ''Attention! Bandits!'' (1951). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an assistant director of Lizzani, Elio Petri, and Gil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Italian Novels
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Novels Adapted Into Films
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Strega Prize–winning Works
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Strega, the Italian word for ''witch'', may refer to: *Strega, a group of pagan magic users who are part of the protectors of Venice in the Heirs of Alexandria series by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer *Stregheria, or the Strega tradition of modern Italian witchcraft Other *, a fictional group of Persona Users in the game ''Persona 3'' *Strega (liqueur) * ''Strega'' (novel), by Andrew Vachss *Strega Prize, an Italian literary award *''Strega'', a P-51 Mustang that races at the Reno Air Races The Reno Air Races, or Roswell Air Races, officially known as the National Championship Air Races, are a multi-day event tailored to the aviation community that took place each September at the Reno Stead Airport a few miles north of Reno, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
