Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer.
Consolo was born in
Sant'Agata di Militello, but resided in
Milan
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from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with ''Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio'' (The Smile of the Unknown Mariner) and went on to become an award-winning author.
In 2008 he was in Lisbon for a conference at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, where he met with the Portuguese poet Casimiro de Brito and
Anna Luisa Pignatelli and wrote a comment on her novel "Nero Toscano".
Vincenzo Consolo won the Strega Prize with ''Nottetempo Casa per Casa'' (At night, from house to house) concerning 1920s Sicily and the rise of fascism. He also been given an honorary doctorate by the University of Palermo. In 1994 he was awarded with the Premio Internazionale Unione Latina.
He died in Milan in 2012 after a long illness.
Awards
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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 ...
- 1992
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Nino Martoglio International Book Award - 1999
References
1933 births
2012 deaths
Writers from the Province of Messina
20th-century Italian novelists
20th-century Italian male writers
Strega Prize winners
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