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Enrico Palandri (b. Venice 1956) is an Italian academic, writer and
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Biography

Palandri graduated with a degree in Dramaturgy from the DAMS (The Disciplines of Art, Music and Theatre) school at the
University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continu ...
, where he studied with Gianni Celati, Giuliano Scabia and
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in Italy, he curated a book on
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, ''Fatti Nostri'' with Carlo Rovelli, Maurizio Torrealta and Claudio Piersanti. Palandri’s first novel, ''Boccalone'', is also set in Bologna during this same timeframe. The novel was published in 1979 through L’erba voglio press, run by Elvio Fachinelli, and then republished various times by Feltrinelli and Bompiani. Palandri moved to London in 1980, where he worked as a language coach for the
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and as a journalist (collaborating with
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and numerous newspapers). In 1993, Palandri was given a Writing Residency post at the University College (London). As of 2003, he also taught a semester each year at
Ca' Foscari University of Venice Ca' Foscari University of Venice ( it, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, simply Università Ca' Foscari) is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from ...
.. He still holds the posts of Writer in Residence and Professor of Modern European Literature at the UCL. Palandri has given talks on literature at universities in South America, Russia, China and Taiwan. Palandri’s novels, articles and essays have appeared in multiple languages and have received numerous prizes (Fenice Europa, Dessi’, Mastronardi, etc.). In 2003, he was conferred the title of “Commendatore” in the
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for his cultural contributions by Italian President
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Publication History

After ''Boccalone'', Palandri collaborated with
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to write the script of the film ''Diavolo in Corpo'' ( Devil in the Flesh) (1986). He then published six novels: ''Le pietre e il sale'' (English: Ages Apart) (1986), ''La via del ritorno'' (English: The Way Back) (1997), ''Le colpevoli ambiguita’ di Herbert Markus'' (1997), ''Angela prende il volo'' (2000), ''L’altra sera'' (English: The Other Evening) (2003), ''I fratelli minori'' (2010). In this cycle, reworked in a single narrative and published by Bompiani with the title "Le condizioni atmosferiche" (2020) such themes are explored as: “Historical events and social changes of great importance: from the student movement of 1977, to political terrorism, to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the radical changes imposed on European society due to the global phenomenon of migration.” (1) Palandri has written short stories and other pieces published in newspapers and review journals, collected in large part in the volume ''Allegro fantastico'' (1993). Palandri has published two
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in verse: ''La strega mia amica'' (English: ''Little Witch'') (1986) and ''Orfeo a teatro'' (2007). Palandri has also translated into Italian works by
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and the brothers
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Critical Contributions

''Pier'' (2005, on Pier Vittorio Tondelli) and ''Primo Levi'' (2011, on the Piedmont writer of the same name) are a monograph and an anthology respectively, with prefaces and commentaries which contextualize the corpus of work written concerning the two Italian authors. The volumes ''La deriva romantica'' (2002) and ''Flow'' (2011) are, instead, books with a very strong theoretical focus. They discuss, in large part, questions relative to style, to the process of textual generation and the generation of metaphors, which are attributed to an independent vitality, not rhetoric but dynamically linked to content, and which qualifies literature. ''Flow'' begins with this phrase: “Poems and novels are the metaphors by which reality is brought into focus”. A single conversational flow is articulated through literary surfaces, in expression, and in profundity, in an atemporal dimension which creates cracks in those surfaces, which gives rise to the invention that the work is the space itself. In this volume, observations made in ''16 appunti sulle metafore'' are added onto theoretical articulation, observations published and elaborated on various times in different contributing contexts before being collected in ''La deriva romantica''. Lectures on diverse subjects given by Palandri at various universities have been published and are available online. " Verso L'infinito" is a monograph on Giacomo Leopardi's poem.


Works

* ''Boccalone: storia vera piena di bugie'', Milan: L’erba voglio, 1979; n. ed. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1988; n. ed. Milan: Bompiani, 1997; ivi, 2011. * ''Le pietre e il sale'', Milan: Garzanti, 1986. Translated into English and Catalan. * A translation of Eudora Welty, ''Come mi sono scoperta scrittore'', Milan: Leonardo, 1989 * ''La via del ritorno'', Milan: Bompiani, 1990; n. ed. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2001. Translated into German, English and French. Finalist for the “France Culture” prize for the year’s best European novel. * A translation of George and Weedon Grossmith, ''Diario di nessuno'', Milan: Marcos y Marcos, 1991. * ''Allegro fantastico'', Milan: Bompiani, 1993. Finalist for the Pisa Prize. * ''Le colpevoli ambiguita’ di Herbert Markus'', Milan: Bompiani, 1997. Finalist for the Stresa Prize. * Angela prende il volo, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2000, finalist for the Fenice Europa Prize, Mastronardi Prize, and Dessi’ Prize. * ''La deriva romantica: ipotesi sulla letteratura e sulla scrittura'', Novara: Interlinea, 2002. * ''L’altra sera'', Milan: Feltrinelli, 2003. Finalist for the Bancarella Sport Prize. Translated into English, 2012. * ''Italia Fantastica'', special issue of “Panta”, edited by Mario Fortunato and Enrico Palandri, Milan: Bompiani, 2004. * ''Pier''. Tondelli e la generazione, Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2005. * ''Orfeo a teatro: canzone a tre voci per Orfeo, Euridice e un tecnico delle luci,'' Venice: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, 2007. * ''I fratelli minori'', Milan: Bompiani, 2010. Translated into English, 2012. * ''Primo Levi'', Florence: Le Monnier, 2011. * ''Flow'', Siena: Barbera, 2011. * "L'inventore di se stesso", Milan, Bompiani 2017 * "Verso l'infinito", Mlan, Bompiani 2017 * "Le condizioni atmosferiche" Milan, Bompiani 2020


Notes

(1) Minardi and Francioso, 2011.


References

*''Generazione in movimento'', edited by Enrico Minardi and Monica Francioso, Ravenna, Longo 2010 *Enrico Minardi and Monica Francioso, ''Enrico Palandri'', Florence, Cadmo 2011 *Alberto della Rovere, ''Dialogo con Enrico Palandri'', Zermeghedo, Edizioni Saecula 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Palandri, Enrico 1956 births Writers from Venice 20th-century Italian writers 20th-century Italian male writers University of Bologna alumni Living people