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Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 30 May 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, ''Involuntary Witness'', published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis and Antony Shugaar. Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President oThe Edinburgh Gadda Prizewhich celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements o .... Background Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari and has worked for many years as a prosecutor specialized in organized cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 30 May 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, ''Involuntary Witness'', published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis and Antony Shugaar. Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President oThe Edinburgh Gadda Prizewhich celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements o .... Background Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari and has worked for many years as a prosecutor specialized in organized cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Bancarella
The Premio Bancarella is an Italian literary prize established in 1953; it is given in Pontremoli Pontremoli (; local egl, Pontrémal; la, Apua) is a small city, ''comune'' former Latin Catholic bishopric in the province of Massa and Carrara, Tuscany region, central Italy. Literally translated, Pontremoli means "Trembling Bridge" (from ''pon ... every year, the last Saturday or the last Sunday in July. At first, six books are selected and award the ''Premio Selezione Bancarella'', then the booksellers establish the winner with their vote. The awarding of the prize take place in the last evening. At present, Premio Bancarella is at the 54th edition. List of winners Premio Bancarella della Cucina The Premio Bancarella della Cucina, inaugurated in 2006, is awarded by the Fondazione Città del Libro together with the Accademia Italiana della Cucina and is intended to promote the gastronomic traditions and heritage of Italy., [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1961 Births
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21st-century Italian Novelists
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Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay. Biography Gadda was a practising engineer from Milan, and he both loved and hated his job. Critics have compared him to other writers with a scientific background, such as Primo Levi, Robert Musil and Thomas Pynchon—a similar spirit of exactitude pervades some of Gadda's books. Among Gadda's styles and genres are baroque, expressionism and grotesque.Alberto Arbasino, ''Genius Loci'' in ''The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies'' (EJGS) 1977 , già in ''Certi romanzi'', Einaudi, Torino, 1977, pp. 339–7cfr., poi in ''L'ingegnere in blu''(2008). Carlo Emilio Gadda was born in Milan in 1893, and he was always intensely Milanese, although late in his life Florence and Rome also became an influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Howard Curtis
Howard Curtis (born 1949) is a British translator of French, Italian and Spanish fiction. He won the 2013 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for his translation from Italian of ''In the Sea there are Crocodiles'' by Fabio Geda. Translations Translations from French * ''Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself In'' by . San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. * ''Memoirs from Elsinore'' by |
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples. It is a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas. The city itself has a population of 315,284 inhabitants, over , while the urban area has 750,000 inhabitants. The metropolitan area has 1.3 million inhabitants. Bari is made up of four different urban sections. To the north is the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the Basilica of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Hohenstaufen Castle built for Frederick II, which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by Joachim Murat), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TGCOM
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Bitter Lemon Press
Bitter Lemon Press is a small London-based independent publisher, set up by Francois von Hurter in 2003 which specialises in translated literary crime novels and romans noirs from abroad. They currently publish novels by authors such as Gianrico Carofiglio, the famous Swiss crime-writer Friedrich Glauser, Saskia Noort, and the award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. Several of the novels published have gone on to win or be shortlisted for awards such as the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the Dublin IMPAC Awardbr> More recently Bitter Lemon has also been publishing books originally in English from such authors as Iain Levison Iain Levison is a Scottish American, Scottish-American writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. Biography Levison graduated from Villanova University, where he received an English degree that became part of the premise for his first commercia ..., Elwood Reid and Garry Disher. References External linksBitter Lemon Press website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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