Giuseppe Dessì (7 August 1909 – 6 July 1977) was an Italian
novelist
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,
short-story writer
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and
playwright
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Readin ...
from
Sardinia
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. His novel ''Paese d'ombre'' won the 1972
Strega Prize
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and was translated into English as ''The Forests of Norbio''.
Dessì grew up in
Villacidro in
Sardinia
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but later moved to
Rome
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.
Works
* ''Il disertore'', Milano: Feltrinelli, 1961. Translated by Virginia Hathaway Moriconi as ''The deserter'', 1962.
* ''Paese d'ombre: Romanzo'', Milan: A. Mondadori, 1972. Translated by
Frances Frenaye as ''The forests of Norbio'', New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
References
Further reading
* John C. Barnes, 'Giuseppe Dessì (1909-1977): A bibliography', ''Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies'', 15 (1982), pp. 26–36.
1909 births
1977 deaths
Italian male short story writers
Italian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Italian novelists
20th-century Italian male writers
20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
Italian male novelists
Italian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Italian short story writers
Italian diarists
20th-century diarists
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