Luigi Malerba
Italian screenwriter
Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi , was an Italian author of short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He has been part of the Neoavanguardia and co-founded Gruppo 63 , a literary movement inspired by Marxism and Structuralism . Some of his most famous novels are La scoperta dell'alfabeto, The serpent, What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too?, Dopo il pescecane, Testa d'argento, Il fuoco greco, Le pietre volanti, Roman ghosts and Ithaca Forever: Penelope speaks. He wrote several stories and novels for kids, some of them in collaboration with Tonino Guerra .
He was the first writer to win the Prix Médicis étranger in 1970. He was awarded the Brancati Prize in 1979, the Mondello Prize in 1987, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 (with Stefano Jacomuzzi and Raffaele La Capria ), the Viareggio Prize in 1992, the Flaiano Prize in 1990 and the Feronia-Città di Fiano Prize [it ] in 1992. His name popped up among the candidates for the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000.[ 1]
The memory
"An amusing writer, Malerba is a curious man: curious about language, history, customs, plots and coincidences in life. Not casually he ventured into novels, linguistic essays, screenplays for cinema and television and children's novels."[ 2]
Umberto Eco said about him: "Many have associated Malerba with post-modern authors, but this classification is inaccurate. The author of What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too? is always behaving in a maliciously ironic way, using subterfuges and ambiguities."[ 3] He was one of the most important exponents of the Italian literary movement called Neoavanguardia , along with Balestrini , Sanguineti , and Manganelli .
Paolo Mauri wrote about him: "Malerba operated within the Neoavanguardia : he liked the idea of turning the old narratives upside down and go for new, experimental solutions. With his novels The serpent and What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too? he started to play on the thread of paradox, where investigations lead to nothing, heroes born from the writer's mind and made to live on the page only to reveal an unexpected trick and a new, absolutely original language. He would then continue, from novel to novel, constantly renewing his themes and style."[ 4]
Bibliography
Stories and novels
La scoperta dell'alfabeto (1963)
Il serpente (1966)
Salto mortale (1968, winner of Prix Médicis )
Il protagonista (1973)
Mozziconi (1975)
Storiette (1977)
Il pataffio (1978)
Le galline pensierose (1980)
Diario di un sognatore (1981)
Storiette tascabili (1984)
Il pianeta azzurro (1986, winner of the winner of the Premio Mondello)
I cani di Gerusalemme (1988, with Fabio Carpi)
Testa d'argento (1988, winner of Grinzane Cavour Prize )
Il fuoco greco (1990, set in the Byzantine Empire )
Le pietre volanti (1992, winner of the Viareggio Prize and the Premio Feronia-Città di Fiano)
Le maschere (1994)
Itaca per sempre (1997)
Pinocchio con gli stivali
Città e dintorni (essays, 2001)
Il circolo di Granada (2002)
Fantasmi romani (2006)
English translations
Two of Malerba's books have been translated into English (as of July 2007):
Il serpente as The Serpent
Salto mortale as What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too?
In addition, another of Malerba's novels, Itaca per sempre , has been translated by Douglas Grant Heise (as Ithaca Forever ).
Scenarios
References
^ NOBEL: CI SONO ANCHE UMBERTO ECO E BOB DYLAN TRA I CANDIDATI .
^ Ziliotto, Gandolfi e Allegra su Testa d'argento, 1988, Oggi, Il racconto, 1990.
^ Luigi Malerba visto da Eco. La geniale arte della menzogna La Repubblica , October 8, 2009. (in Italian)
^ "È morto lo scrittore Luigi Malerba, maestro di realtà deformate", su La Repubblica, 8 maggio 2008 .
Sources
Anderson, Helen Victoria (2010), Historical and detective fiction in Italy 1950-2006 : Calvino, Malerba and Mancinelli , D. Phil. University of Oxford
External links
Awards received by Luigi Malerba
Single Prize for Literature Special Jury Prize
Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta , Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey , José Donoso , Northrop Frye , Jorge Semprún , Wole Soyinka , Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum , Fan Boaci , Wang Huanbao , Shi Peide , Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong , Xiao Xue , Yu Yougqnan , Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First narrative work First poetic work Prize for foreign literature Prize for foreign poetry First work
Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri , Laura Mancinelli (1981)
Jolanda Insana (1982)
Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
Aldo Busi (1984)
Elisabetta Rasy , Dario Villa (1985)
Marco Lodoli , Angelo Mainardi (1986)
Marco Ceriani , Giovanni Giudice (1987)
Edoardo Albinati , Silvana La Spina (1988)
Andrea Canobbio , Romana Petri (1990)
Anna Cascella (1991)
Marco Caporali , Nelida Milani (1992)
Silvana Grasso , Giulio Mozzi (1993)
Ernesto Franco (1994)
Roberto Deidier (1995)
Giuseppe Quatriglio , Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
Alba Donati (1998)
Paolo Febbraro (1999)
Evelina Santangelo (2000)
Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
Giovanni Bergamini , Simona Corso (2003)
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
Francesco Fontana (2006)
Paolo Fallai (2007)
Luca Giachi (2008)
Carlo Carabba (2009)
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Foreign author Italian Author
Alberto Moravia (1982)
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati , Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini , Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri , Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
Andrea Camilleri (2002)
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
Maurizio Bettini , Giorgio Montefoschi , Nelo Risi (2004)
pr. Raffaele Nigro , sec. Maurizio Cucchi , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
pr. Paolo Di Stefano , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
pr. Mario Fortunato , sec. Toni Maraini , ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
pr. Andrea Bajani , sec. Antonio Scurati , ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
pr. Mario Desiati , sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
pr. Lorenzo Pavolini , sec. Roberto Cazzola , ter. (2010)
pr. Eugenio Baroncelli , sec. Milo De Angelis , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
pr. Edoardo Albinati , sec. Paolo Di Paolo , ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
pr. Andrea Canobbio , sec. Valerio Magrelli , ter. Walter Siti (2013)
pr. Irene Chias , sec. Giorgio Falco , ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
pr. Nicola Lagioia , sec. Letizia Muratori , ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
pr. Marcello Fois , sec. Emanuele Tonon , ter. Romana Petri (2016)
pr. Stefano Massini , sec. Alessandro Zaccuri , ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
"Five Continents" Award "Palermo bridge for Europe" Award Ignazio Buttitta Award Supermondello Special award of the President Poetry prize Translation Award Identity and dialectal literatures award Essays Prize Mondello for Multiculturality Award Mondello Youths Award "Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa Prize for Literary Criticism Award for best motivation Special award for travel literature Special Award 40 Years of Mondello
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