Carlo Fruttero
The editorial team of Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, particularly notable for their (controversial) curation of the Urania series of fantascienza (science-fiction) compilations from 1964 to 1985.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
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Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was e -
Arthur C. Clarke
Stories, works of noted British writer, scientist, and underwater explorer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, include 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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This most important and influential figure in 20th century fiction spent the first half of his life in England and served in World War II as a radar operator before migrating to Ceylon in 1956. He co-created his best known novel and movie with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.
Clarke, a graduate of King's College, London, obtained first class honours in physics and mathematics. He served as past chairman of the interplanetary society and as a member of the academy of astronautics, the royal astronomical society, and many other organizations.
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Stanisław Lem
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His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of -
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
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From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political -
Roberto Bolaño
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.
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He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband -
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Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President of The Edinburgh Gadda Prize which celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda.
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Niccolò Ammaniti
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Paul Auster
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Giuseppe Pontiggia
Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.
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He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting from 1961. -
Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
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Sacks was the youngest of four children born to a prosperous North London Jewish couple: Sam, a physician, and Elsie, a surgeon. When he was six years old, he and his brother were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz, retreating to a boarding school in the Midlands, where he remained until 1943. During his youth, he was a keen amateur chemist, as recalled in his memoir Uncle Tungsten. He also learned to share his parents' enthusiasm for medicine and entered The Queen's College, O -
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Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
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Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
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Walter Tevis
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Gaetano Savatteri
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Chiara Valerio
Chiara Valerio è una scrittrice, traduttrice, editor, direttrice artistica e conduttrice radiofonica italiana.
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Ha conseguito un dottorato in Matematica all'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. È redattrice della rivista Nuovi Argomenti e ha collaborato al blog letterario Nazione Indiana. Ha scritto per il teatro e per la radio, ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore e l'Unità e con la trasmissione culturale “Pane quotidiano”, Rai 3. Per l'editrice Nottetempo ha diretto la collana "narrativa.it", dedicata ai nuovi scrittori della narrativa italiana. Con Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella e Gaia Manzini ha scritto il soggetto del film di Nanni Moretti Mia madre, con Gianni Amelio e Alberto Taraglio ha scritto il soggetto del film di Gianni Amel -
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.
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Dario Ferrari
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Francesco Filippi
Francesco Filippi (1981) è storico della mentalità e formatore presso l’Associazione di Promozione Sociale Deina, che organizza viaggi di memoria e percorsi formativi in tutta Italia. Collabora alla stesura di manuali e percorsi educativi sui temi del rapporto tra memoria e presente. Tra le sue pubblicazioni Il Litorale Austriaco tra Otto e Novecento: quanti e quali confini?, in Piacenza, Trieste, Sarajevo 1918-2018 (a cura di Carla Antonini, 2018) e Appunti di Antimafia (con Dominella Trunfio, 2017). Per Bollati Boringhieri ha pubblicato Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone. Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo.
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Franco Lucentini
Franco Lucentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. With his friend Carlo Fruttero he formed the editorial team known as Fruttero & Lucentini, particularly notable for their curation of the Urania series of fantascienza (science-fiction) compilations from 1964 to 1985.
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Chi Ta-wei
Chi Ta-wei was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1972. He attended National Taiwan University, graduating from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and received a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches literature at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.
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Chi Ta-wei is most well-known for his science fiction novel Membrane (膜, 1996), which was one of the first queer novels to be published in Chinese. He has also published various short story collections and volumes of critical essays on queer and science-fiction literature, and translated several foreign works into Chinese, including a series of novels by Italian author Italo Calvino. -
Giulia Caminito
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Lino Aldani
Lino Aldani was an Italian science fiction writer.
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Aldani was born in San Cipriano Po in 1926. He lived until 1968 in Rome, where he worked as a mathematics teacher, and then back in San Cipriano Po.
He published science fiction stories starting in the Sixties (his first published short story being "Dove sono i vostri Kumar?", in 1960) and his first novel, Quando le radici, in 1977. In 1962 he wrote the first Italian critical essay about science fiction, La fantascienza. In 1963 Aldani founded the SF magazine Futuro with Massimo Lo Jacono.
Won the ESFS award "Lifelong Literary Achievement" in 1989.
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John McEnroe
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McEnroe is also an expert tennis commentator and occasionally makes guests appearances in TV shows. He was married to actress Tatum O'Neal for eight turbulent years and is currently married to singer Patty Smyth. He has five children between both marriages. -
Franco Lucentini
Franco Lucentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. With his friend Carlo Fruttero he formed the editorial team known as Fruttero & Lucentini, particularly notable for their curation of the Urania series of fantascienza (science-fiction) compilations from 1964 to 1985.
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He also wrote a solo volume of short stories, Notizie dagli scavi (1964)