Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L. Ariosto in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests.
In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the “free intellectual” was the Liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were
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Emilio Salgari
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Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salgari. He wrote more than two hundred short stories and novels, many of which are considered classics. Setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures, Mr. Salgari brought the wonders of the world to the doorstep of generations of readers. -
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From 1916 to 1933, she appeared as a film actress (mostly under the name Magda Papir). One year after marrying Béla Szepes in 2 January 1931, she accompanied him to Berlin, where they lived until Hungary's Anschluß towards war's end. In her book Magie der Liebe ("Magic of Love"), Szepes writes about the marriage, which lasted -
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Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning writer/director with an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, where she was mentored by Charles Baxter, Joan Silber and Antonya Nelson. HANNAH'S WAR is her debut novel -- HANNAH'S WAR will be published by Little, Brown on March 3, 2020.
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Eliasberg has a notable career as a screenwriter, writing films and television series driven by strong female leads. She wrote W.A.S.P. about the Women Air Service Pilots in WWII for Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz at FOX. Mi Corazon was written for Universal, with Jennifer Lopez attached to star. She wrote Heart ‘N Soul, a “hip hop Pygmalion” for Warner Brothers, and The Gemcutter, a YA historic -
Pino Cacucci
Pino Cacucci (Alessandria, 1955) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e traduttore italiano.
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Cresciuto a Chiavari, si è trasferito a Bologna nel 1975 per frequentare il DAMS. All'inizio degli anni ottanta è vissuto per lunghi periodi sia a Parigi che a Barcellona. In seguito viaggia molto in America latina e soprattutto in Messico dove ha abitato per lunghi periodi.
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Stefano Mancuso is the Director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) in Florence, Italy, a founder of the International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, and a professor at the University of Florence. His books and papers have been published in numerous international magazines and journals, and La Repubblica newspaper has listed him among the twenty people who will change our lives.
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Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen was a German author.
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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Reck was also a novelist, mainly of children's adventure stories. One book, Bomben auf Monte Carlo, has been filmed twice. Many of his books were banned by the Nazis, and more were not published until years after his death. Today his best known work is Diary Of A Man In Despair (Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten), his journal of life under Nazi rule (which he vehemently opposed), which was published in English translation by Paul Rubens in 1970. -
Elio Vittorini
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Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche, born Mazo Louise Roche, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.
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The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin. For the Whiteoaks, there remains something solid and unchanging in the midst of life's transience--the manor house and its rich surrounding farmland known as "Jalna." The author, Mazo de la Roche, gave the members of her fictitious family names from gravestones in Ontario's New Market cemetery, and the story itself balances somewh -
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Italo Svevo
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Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni, meglio noto semplicemente come Alessandro Manzoni (Milano, 7 marzo 1785 – Milano, 22 maggio 1873), è stato uno scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo italiano.
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Considerato uno dei maggiori romanzieri italiani di tutti i tempi per il suo celebre romanzo I promessi sposi, caposaldo della letteratura italiana, Manzoni ebbe il merito principale di aver gettato le basi per il romanzo moderno e di aver così patrocinato l'unità linguistica italiana, sulla scia di quella letteratura moralmente e civilmente impegnata propria dell'Illuminismo italiano.
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The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the partisan war; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato (this was published posthumously too in 1969).
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Valerio Massimo Manfredi defines himself as an "Ancient World Topographer". Since 1978 he spends his time teaching in several European universities, digging ruins in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, and writing novels.
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Was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.
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Nara Vidal
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Stefania Auci
Stefania Auci è nata a Trapani ma vive da anni a Palermo, dopo aver girato l’Italia. Insegnante, ex avvocato, ex cancelliere, si dedica alla narrativa urban fantasy, horror e romance sin dall’adolescenza.
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A ottobre 2011 è uscito il suo romance di esordio, Fiore di Scozia, edito da Harlequin Mondadori e a dicembre 2012 il suo seguito La Rosa Bianca. Nel 2010 ha pubblicato con edizioni 0111 Hidden in the dark, breve raccolta di racconti urban fantasy tratti dalla saga di Moray Place 12, Edimburgo. -
Carlo Cassola
(Roma, 1917 - Montecarlo di Lucca, 1987)
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Frequenta il Ginnasio-Liceo "Tasso" e in seguito l'"Umberto I", per poi iscriversi, nel 1935, alla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’ Università di Roma. L’attività letteraria era già cominciata negli anni ’30: tra il ’37 e il ’40, egli aveva licenziato diversi racconti, (alcuni dei quali pubblicati sulle riviste “Meridiano di Roma” e “Letteratura”), in seguito riuniti nel volume “La visita” (1942). Pare evidente, negli scritti succitati, la suggestione dei “Dublinesi” di Joyce (“In Joyce scoprii il primo scrittore che concentrasse la sua attenzione su quegli aspetti della vita che per me erano sempre stati i più importanti e di cui gli altri sembravano non accorgersi nemmeno”), primo passo verso quella -
Philip Roth
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Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.
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He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
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Thomas Mann
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Great political influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin , novel against slavery of 1852 of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, American writer, advanced the cause of abolition.
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Lyman Beecher fathered Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, another child.
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, an author, attacked the cruelty, and reached millions of persons as a play even in Britain. She made the tangible issues of the 1850s to millions and energized forces in the north. She angered and embittered the south. A commonly quoted statement, apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln, sums up the effect. He met Stowe and then said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!" or so people say.
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Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.
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He is best known for his book, "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli), published in 1945; a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism. In 1979, the book became the basis of a movie of the same name, directed by Francesco Rosi. Lucania, now called Basilicata, is historically one of the poorest and most backward regions of the impoverished Italian south. Levi's lucid, non-ideological and sympathetic description of the daily hardships experienced by the local peasants helped to propel the "Problem of the South" into national discourse after the end of the World War II. -
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Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
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Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs". -
Italo Svevo
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
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Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.
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Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
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Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the University of Bologna, where he attended courses with Umberto Eco and Gianni Celati.
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In 1980 he made his debut with the collection of generational-themed stories Other Libertines, which achieved good success with critics and the public. The explicit content also earned him the attention of the judicial authorities, followed by a trial at the end of which the author and publisher were exonerated.
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Luciano Bianciardi
Luciano Bianciardi (Grosseto, 1922 – Milano, 1971) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, traduttore, bibliotecario, attivista e critico televisivo italiano.
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Contribuì significativamente al fermento culturale italiano nel dopoguerra, collaborando attivamente con varie case editrici, riviste e quotidiani. La sua opera narrativa è caratterizzata da punte di ribellione verso l'establishment culturale, a cui peraltro apparteneva, e da un'attenta analisi dei costumi sociali nell'Italia del boom economico, tanto che alla finzione narrativa si mescolano spesso brani saggistici che sfociano sovente nella sociologia. Legato per formazione e per scelta a tematiche classiste e libertarie, avrebbe dato all'impegno letterario il senso di un diretto engageme -
Andrea Bajani
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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Antonio Scurati
Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche del linguaggio televisivo. Nel 2005 Scurati diviene Ricercatore in Cinema, Fotografia, Televisione. Nel 2008 si trasferisce alla Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM di Milano, dove svolge l'attività di ricercatore e docente titolare nell'ambito del Laboratorio di Scrittura Creativa e del Laboratorio di Oralità e Retorica.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Nara Vidal
Nara Vidal é mineira de Guarani. Editora, tradutora, professora, é autora de livros para crianças e adultos. Seu romance de estreia "Sorte" (Editora Moinhos, 2018) foi um dos vencedores do Prêmio Oceanos em 2019 e está traduzido na Holanda sob o título "Lotgevallen" (Nobelman, 2020) É autora de dois livros de contos "A Loucura dos Outros" (Editora Reformatório, 2016) e seu mais recente trabalho "Mapas para desaparecer" (Faria e Silva, 2020)
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Oscar Nakasato
Nascido em 1963, Oscar Fussato Nakasato é neto de imigrantes japoneses. Seus avós (paternos e maternos) se instalaram em fazendas de café no interior de São Paulo para trabalharem como colonos, na esperança de enriquecerem e retornarem ao Japão. Desfeito o sonho de voltar ao país natal, a família Nakasato migrou para o interior do Paraná, onde adquiriu um sítio. Preocupados com a educação escolar dos filhos, seus pais transferiram-se para Maringá.
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Nakasato cursou Direito por dois anos e meio na Universidade Estadual de Maringá, mas trocou esse curso pelo de Letras, na mesma instituição. Fez mestrado e depois doutorado em Teoria da Literatura e Literatura Comparada na Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de Assis. Hoje é professor de Litera -
Chandra Livia Candiani
Chandra Livia Candiani, all'anagrafe Livia Candiani, è una poetessa (1952), in parte russa e in parte italiana, nata e cresciuta a Milano, traduttrice di testi buddhisti e maestra di meditazione.
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W.G. Sebald
Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. His works are largely concerned with the themes of memory, loss of memory, and identity (both personal and collective) and decay (of civilizations, traditions or physical objects). They are, in particular, attempts to reconcile himself with, and deal in literary terms with, the trauma of the Second World War and its effect on the German people.
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At the time of his death at the age of only 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors, and was tipped as a possible future recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Lorenzo Marone
Lorenzo Marone è uno scrittore italiano. Laureato in Giurisprudenza, ha esercitato per quasi dieci anni la professione di avvocato. Ha pubblicato La tentazione di essere felici (Longanesi, 2015), La tristezza ha il sonno leggero (Longanesi, 2016), Magari domani resto (Feltrinelli, 2017), Un ragazzo normale, uscito sempre (Feltrinelli, 2018). A novembre del 2018 è uscita per Feltrinelli la raccolta Cara Napoli, che racchiude gli articoli pubblicati dal 2015 su La Repubblica Napoli e che è giunto alla seconda ristampa. Nel 2019 ha pubblicato, ancora per Feltrinelli, Tutto sarà perfetto.
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Oscar Nakasato
Nascido em 1963, Oscar Fussato Nakasato é neto de imigrantes japoneses. Seus avós (paternos e maternos) se instalaram em fazendas de café no interior de São Paulo para trabalharem como colonos, na esperança de enriquecerem e retornarem ao Japão. Desfeito o sonho de voltar ao país natal, a família Nakasato migrou para o interior do Paraná, onde adquiriu um sítio. Preocupados com a educação escolar dos filhos, seus pais transferiram-se para Maringá.
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Nakasato cursou Direito por dois anos e meio na Universidade Estadual de Maringá, mas trocou esse curso pelo de Letras, na mesma instituição. Fez mestrado e depois doutorado em Teoria da Literatura e Literatura Comparada na Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de Assis. Hoje é professor de Litera -
Giorgio de Santillana
Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, born in Rome. He was Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Vitaliano Brancati
Nato da Rosario, avvocato con interessi letterari, e da Antonietta Ciàvola, Vitaliano Brancati compie i propri studi a Catania e si laurea in lettere nel ‘29, con una tesi su Federico De Roberto. Per alcuni anni, si dedica all’insegnamento e pubblica opere (il poema drammatico “Fedor”, 1928; l’atto unico “Everest”, 1931; il dramma patriottico “Piave”, 1932) di irrilevante valore artistico e manifesti intenti di propaganda nazionalfascista. Si trasferisce intanto a Roma, ove - grazie pure ai contatti con Moravia ed Alvaro - si allontana dalle posizioni politiche favorevoli al regime, al punto da ripudiare i suoi lavori precedenti. Il nuovo corso artistico si apre con “Gli anni perduti” (1938), intriso di umori gogoliani e cechoviani: ma è co
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Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern was an Italian author and World War II veteran.
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His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 (and the following year in English as The Sergeant in the Snow), draws on his own experience as a Sergeant Major in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in the World War II. It is his only work to be translated into English and Spanish.
Other well-known works also include Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo's Seasons), Storia di Tönle (The Story of Tönle), and the collection of short stories Sentieri sotto la neve (Paths Beneath the Snow).
He was awarded the Premio Campiello and the Premio Bagutta for Storia di Tönle, and the Italian PEN prize for Sentieri sotto la neve. -
Nicola Gardini
Nicola Gardini è scrittore e pittore. Vive tra Oxford e Milano.
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Scrive poesie, saggi, romanzi, memoir, articoli giornalistici, e traduce poesia dal latino e da alcune lingue moderne, soprattutto l’inglese. Dipinge prevalentemente a olio, su tela e su cartone. -
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. -
Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis was a British writer renowned for his richly detailed travel writing, though his literary output also included twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. Born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1908 to a Welsh family, Lewis was raised in a household steeped in spiritualism, a belief system embraced by his grieving parents following the deaths of his elder brothers. Despite these early influences, Lewis grew into a skeptic with a deeply observant eye, fascinated by cultures on the margins of the modern world.
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His early adulthood was marked by various professions—including wedding photographer, umbrella wholesaler, and even motorcycle racer—before he served in the British Army during World War II. His wartime experiences in Algiers -
Luciano Bianciardi
Luciano Bianciardi (Grosseto, 1922 – Milano, 1971) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, traduttore, bibliotecario, attivista e critico televisivo italiano.
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Contribuì significativamente al fermento culturale italiano nel dopoguerra, collaborando attivamente con varie case editrici, riviste e quotidiani. La sua opera narrativa è caratterizzata da punte di ribellione verso l'establishment culturale, a cui peraltro apparteneva, e da un'attenta analisi dei costumi sociali nell'Italia del boom economico, tanto che alla finzione narrativa si mescolano spesso brani saggistici che sfociano sovente nella sociologia. Legato per formazione e per scelta a tematiche classiste e libertarie, avrebbe dato all'impegno letterario il senso di un diretto engageme -
Paolo Volponi
Paolo Volponi was an Italian writer, poet and politician. He is the only author to have won the Strega Prize twice, in 1965 for La macchina mondiale (trans. as The Worldwide Machine) and in 1991 for La strada per Roma. In 1960, he won the Viareggio Prize for Le porte dell'Appennino and in 1986 the Mondello Prize for Con testo a fronte.
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Ottiero Ottieri
Ottiero Lucioli Ottieri della Ciaja, noto comunemente come Ottiero Ottieri, è stato uno scrittore, sociologo e traduttore italiano.
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Nato a Roma nel 1924, ha cominciato a scrivere a quattordici anni, sulla terrazza di un alberghetto a Villabassa, descrivendo le Dolomiti.
Per un certo periodo si dedicò alla letteratura greca traducendo (e pubblicando giovanissimo presso l’editore Capriotti), l’Agamennone di Eschilo, preceduto di un saggio introduttivo. Dopo la laurea ha seguito un corso di perfezionamento in letteratura inglese.
Nel 1948 si trasferì a Milano. Fa l’analisi con Cesare Musatti, frequenta la sede del PSI e collabora all’“Avanti”, psicoanalisi e politica sono gli strumenti per entrare nella vita. Viene assunto dalla casa editrice Mon -
Antonio Caprarica
Ha esordito nel mondo giornalistico come redattore sindacale del settimanale Mondo Nuovo; tra il 1976 e il 1978 ha commentato prima la cronaca romana e poi la politica interna su l'Unità, in seguito è stato per soli nove mesi da febbraio a ottobre 1989 condirettore del quotidiano romano Paese Sera. Con Giorgio Rossi, ha scritto il suo primo libro: La ragazza dei passi perduti, nel 1986.
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Nel 1989 ha lasciato la carta stampata per dedicarsi alla televisione: entrato in Rai, si è occupato di politica estera, poi è inviato e, quindi, corrispondente fisso del Tg1 nei paesi mediorientali, con base al Cairo ed a Gerusalemme. È inviato in Afghanistan, sui carri armati sovietici, che si ritirano sotto l'offensiva dei mujaheddin. Poi a Baghdad, nell'a -
Umberto Galimberti
Nato a Monza nel 1942, è stato dal 1976 professore incaricato di Antropologia Culturale e dal 1983 professore associato di Filosofia dellaStoria. Dal 1999 è professore ordinario all’università Ca Foscari diVenezia, titolare della cattedra di Filosofia della Storia. Dal 1985 è membroordinario dell’international Association for Analytical Psychology.
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Dopo aver compiuto studi di filosofia, di antropologia culturale e dipsicologia, ha tradotto e curato di Jaspers, di cui è stato allievo durante isuoi soggiorni in Germania:
Sulla verità (raccolta antologica), La Scuola, Brescia, 1970.
La fede filosofica, Marietti, Casale Monferrato, 1973.
Filosofia, Mursia, Milano, 1972-1978, e Utet, Torino, 1978.
di Heidegger ha tradotto e curato:
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Marisa Madieri
Marisa Madieri è stata una scrittrice italiana. In origine il cognome della famiglia paterna (fiumana, ma di origini evidentemente ungheresi) era Madjarić, poi fu modificato in Madierich e successivamente in Madieri. La famiglia, esule dall'Istria, riparò a Trieste nel 1949, e per molti mesi visse in condizioni precarie, insieme a tanti altri profughi italiani, nel campo profughi del Silos presso la stazione ferroviaria. Di questo periodo avrebbe scritto poi nel suo primo libro Verde acqua (Einaudi 1987) in cui narra dell'esodo di Fiume, dell'identità di questa città e di altri fatti legati alla sua infanzia e adolescenza, in cui la memoria è anche ricerca delle proprie radici.
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Antonio Fogazzaro
Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.
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In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin. In Milan he followed the scapigliatura movement.
In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time.
In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inne -
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti was an Italian author, poet, and journalist.
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Born in San Salvatore Monferrato, his military career was cut short by ill health, and in 1865 he settled in Milan. Here he entered literary study, becoming part of the Scapigliatura, a literary movement animated by a spirit of rebellion against traditional culture. He worked on several newspapers and published short stories, novels, and poems. He contracted tuberculosis and died in poverty at the age of 29. [wikipedia] -
Helena Janeczek
Helena Janeczek (Monaco di Baviera, 1964) è una scrittrice e giornalista tedesca naturalizzata italiana.
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Nata a Monaco nel 1964 da una famiglia di ebrei originari della Polonia e naturalizzati tedeschi attualmente vive in Italia dal 1983, dove ha pubblicato una raccolta di poesie in tedesco ed è lettrice per Mondadori della sezione Letteratura straniera.
Lezioni di tenebra - ampiamente autobiografico - è uscito in prima edizione per Mondadori nel 1997 ed è stato ripubblicato nel 2011 da Guanda. Il libro ha vinto il Premio Bagutta Opera Prima. Del 2002 è il romanzo Cibo. Segue, per il Saggiatore, Bloody Cow, storia di Clare Tomkins, la prima vittima della malattia di Creutzfeldt-Jakob, comunemente nota come "mucca pazza".
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo palatˈtseski]; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist.
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He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's direction he studied accounting but gave up that pursuit as he became enamored with the theater and acting. Respectful of his father's wishes that the family name not be associated with acting, he chose his maternal grandmother's maiden name Palazzeschi as a pseudonym.
His family's comfortable circumstances enabled him to publish his first book of poetry, I cavalli bianchi (The White Horses) in 1905 using his acting pseudonym.
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Emilio De Marchi
Emilio De Marchi (1851-1901) was an Italian novelist, poet and translator.
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Nora Iuga
Nora Iuga, poeta, prozatoare si traducatoare, membra a Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania. Autoare a mai multor volume de poezie – Vina nu e a mea (1968), Captivitatea cercului (1970), Scrisori neexpediate (1978), Opinii despre durere (1980; Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania), Inima ca un pumn de boxeur (editia I, 1982; editia a II-a, 2000), Piata cerului (1986), Cintece (1989) – si de proza – Sapunul lui Leopold Bloom (editia I, 1993; editia a II-a, Polirom, 2007; Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania), Sexagenara si tinarul (editia I, 2000; editia a II-a, Polirom, 2004; Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania), Fasanenstraße 23 – O vara la Berlin (2001), Lebada cu doua intrari (2004), Hai sa furam pepeni (Polirom, 2009), Berlin
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E. Hoffmann Price
Originally intending to be a career soldier, Price graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point; he served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and with the American military in Mexico and the Philippines. He was a champion fencer and boxer, an amateur Orientalist, and a student of the Arabic language; science-fiction author Jack Williamson, in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child, called E. Hoffmann Price a "real live soldier of fortune."
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In his literary career, Hoffmann Price produced fiction for a wide range of publications, from Argosy to Terror Tales, from Speed Detective to Spicy Mystery Stories. Yet he was most readily identified as a Weird Tales writer, one of the group who wrote regularly for edito -
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.
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She was born at the castle of Dubský (Graf von Třebomyslice) family in Zdislavice near Kroměříž in Moravia, Czech Republic, and died in Vienna, Austria.
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Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.
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Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
During World War II he fought with the Italian partisans against the German occupation. After the war he also worked in the cinema, collaborating as screenwriter to films such as Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Na -
Marcel Detienne
Marcel Detienne was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of Ancient Greece.
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Edmond de Goncourt
French writer and literary and art critic Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt published books and founded the Académie Goncourt. His brother is Jules de Goncourt.
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