Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012[1]) was an Italian writer.
Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan 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.[2]
In 2008 he was in Lisbon for a conference at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, where he met with the Portuguese poet Casimiro de Brito[3] and Anna Luisa Pignatelli and wrote a comment on her novel "Nero Toscano".[4][5]
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.[6]
He died in Milan in 2012 after a long illness.
Awards
- 1985 – Pirandello Award, with Lunaria.[7]
- 1988 – Grinzane Cavour Prize, with Retablo.[8]
- 1992 – Strega Prize, with Nottetempo, casa per casa.[9]
- 1994 – International Latin Union Prize, with L'olivo e l'olivastro.[10]
- 1999 – Brancati Prize, with Lo spasimo di Palermo.[10]
- 1999 – Flaiano Prize.[11]
- 2000 – Feronia-Città di Fiano Prize, with Di qua dal faro.[12]
- 2011 – Ostana Prize - Scritture in lingua madre, Special Prize[13]
References
- ^ Der Sizilianer. Zum Tod des italienischen Schriftstellers Vincenzo Consolo. Süddeutsche Zeitung.[dead link]
- ^ rai International Online Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Incontro con Vincenzo Consolo". iiclisbona.esteri.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ^ Nero Toscano. ASIN 8897012515.
- ^ "Ruggine | Anna Luisa Pignatelli". Fazi Editore. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ^ "Vincenzo Consolo — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ^ "A GASSMAN IL PREMIO PIRANDELLO - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). 1985-07-07. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ "Archivio Festivaletteratura". 2019-05-11. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ "1992 Vincenzo Consolo | Premio Strega 2019". 2019-04-15. Archived from the original on 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ a b "CONSOLO, Vincenzo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ Flaiano, Premi. "Vincitori Premi Internazionali Flaiano anno 1999". www.premiflaiano.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ "Premio Letterario Feronia Citt di Fiano 2000". 2019-05-11. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ "Vincenzo Consolo - Premio Speciale". www.chambradoc.it. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
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- 1947 Ennio Flaiano
- 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli
- 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti
- 1950 Cesare Pavese
- 1951 Corrado Alvaro
- 1952 Alberto Moravia
- 1953 Massimo Bontempelli
- 1954 Mario Soldati
- 1955 Giovanni Comisso
- 1956 Giorgio Bassani
- 1957 Elsa Morante
- 1958 Dino Buzzati
- 1959 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- 1960 Carlo Cassola
- 1961 Raffaele La Capria
- 1962 Mario Tobino
- 1963 Natalia Ginzburg
- 1964 Giovanni Arpino
- 1965 Paolo Volponi
- 1966 Michele Prisco
- 1967 Anna Maria Ortese
- 1968 Alberto Bevilacqua
- 1969 Lalla Romano
- 1970 Guido Piovene
- 1971 Raffaello Brignetti
- 1972 Giuseppe Dessì
- 1973 Manlio Cancogni
- 1974 Guglielmo Petroni
- 1975 Tommaso Landolfi
- 1976 Fausta Cialente
- 1977 Fulvio Tomizza
- 1978 Ferdinando Camon
- 1979 Primo Levi
- 1980 Vittorio Gorresio
- 1981 Umberto Eco
- 1982 Goffredo Parise
- 1983 Mario Pomilio
- 1984 Pietro Citati
- 1985 Carlo Sgorlon
- 1986 Maria Bellonci
- 1987 Stanislao Nievo
- 1988 Gesualdo Bufalino
- 1989 Giuseppe Pontiggia
- 1990 Sebastiano Vassalli
- 1991 Paolo Volponi
- 1992 Vincenzo Consolo
- 1993 Domenico Rea
- 1994 Giorgio Montefoschi
- 1995 Mariateresa Di Lascia
- 1996 Alessandro Barbero
- 1997 Claudio Magris
- 1998 Enzo Siciliano
- 1999 Dacia Maraini
- 2000 Ernesto Ferrero
- 2001 Domenico Starnone
- 2002 Margaret Mazzantini
- 2003 Melania Gaia Mazzucco
- 2004 Ugo Riccarelli
- 2005 Maurizio Maggiani
- 2006 Sandro Veronesi
- 2007 Niccolò Ammaniti
- 2008 Paolo Giordano
- 2009 Tiziano Scarpa
- 2010 Antonio Pennacchi
- 2011 Edoardo Nesi
- 2012 Alessandro Piperno
- 2013 Walter Siti
- 2014 Francesco Piccolo
- 2015 Nicola Lagioia
- 2016 Edoardo Albinati
- 2017 Paolo Cognetti
- 2018 Helena Janeczek
- 2019 Antonio Scurati
- 2020 Sandro Veronesi
- 2021 Emanuele Trevi
- 2022 Mario Desiati
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