Giovanni Battista Angioletti (27 November 1896 – 3 August 1961) was an Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Angioletti was born in

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in 1896 and was gifted with a lively and reflective intelligence. His plans to qualify as an engineer were interrupted by the outbreak of

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; at the end of the conflict he decided instead to embark upon a literary career, combining work as a journalist with writing fiction. In 1928 ''Il giorno del giudizio'' became the first winner of the

Premio Bagutta The Bagutta Prize is an Italian literature, literary prize that is awarded annually to Italian writers. The prize originated among patrons of Milan's ''Bagutta Ristorante''. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he regul ...

. In 1929 he became editor of the magazine ''Italia letteraria'' and started to write for the '' Corriere della Sera''; in the following year he founded the literary review ''Trifalco''. From 1934 he spent much of his time abroad, lecturing at the universities of

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and

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and acting as director of the institutes of Italian culture in

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and Paris. He remained in France for much of

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, returning to Italy only in 1945. Here he resumed his role at ''Italia letteraria'', (now published as ''Fiera Letteraria'') and continued to write fiction, winning the 1949

Strega Prize The Strega Prize ( it, Premio Strega ) is the most prestigious 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 ...

with ''La memoria'', published by

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. In the decade following he played a part in the birth of Italy's Radio 3 and directed a number of cultural programmes for the station. Angioletti was for many years secretary of the Italian writers' union, the Sindacato Nazionale Scrittori Italiani, and was the first chairman of the European Community of Writers. Giovanni Battista Angioletti died in Santa Maria la Bruna, near

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in 1961 at the age of 64. In the previous year his career had been crowned with the award of the

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanes ...

for ''I grandi ospiti''.

Principal works

Fiction

*''Il giorno del giudizio'', Torino, 1928; Premio Bagutta *''Il buon veliero'', Lanciano, 1930 *''Il generale in esilio'', Firenze, 1938 *''Donata'', Firenze, 1941 *''Eclisse di luna'', Firenze, 1943 *''La memoria'', Milano, 1949; Premio Strega * ''Narciso'', Milano, 1949 *''Giobbe uomo solo'', Milano, 1955

Essays and criticism

*''Scrittori d'Europa'', Milano, 1928 *''Servizio di guardia'', Lanciano, 1932 *''L'Europa d'oggi'', Lanciano, 1934 *''Le carte parl''anti, Firenze, 1941 *''Vecchio continente'', Roma, 1942 *''L'Italia felice'', Roma, 1947 *''Inchiesta segreta'', Milano, 1953 *''L'anatra alla normanna'', Milano, 1957 *''L'uso della parola'', Caltanissetta-Roma, 1958 *''I grandi ospiti'', Firenze 1960; Premio Viareggio *''Tutta l'Europa'', Roma, 1961 *''Gli italiani sono onesti'', Milano, 1968; (published posthumously)

References

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Life

Principal works

Fiction

Essays and criticism

See also

References