Fulvio Tomizza

Fulvio Tomizza ( born January 26, 1935 in Giurizzani at Materada in Istria, today part of Umag, Croatia; † 21 May 1999 Trieste, Italy ) was an Italian writer.

Life

Tomizza was born in a village in Istria, which belonged to Italy at the time. In 1954, he put in Koper from the High School. When the area of the Free Territory of Trieste was divided in 1954 by the London Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Yugoslavia, Tomizza moved to Trieste.

He worked there as an editor for local news radio station. In 1960 he published his first novel Materada, which is named after his hometown. The novel was very well received when it first appeared on the Italian literary criticism and appreciated in the feature pages of all major newspapers. He is regarded in literary criticism now considered classics of the Istrian literature.

With this novel Tomizza experienced his breakthrough as a writer. Henceforth Tomizza lived in Trieste as a freelance writer.

The novel Materada he summarized later together with the works of La Ragazza di Petrovia and Il Bosco di Acacie to Trilogia Istriana. 1977 Tomizza reached his greatest success with the novel La Miglior Vita, which was sold in Italy alone over 400,000 times.

Tomizzas novels address the interrelationship of language and culture, multilingualism and transnationalism, the multi-ethnic cultural area of the former Habsburg monarchy often seems as of meaningful reference point. The protagonists live a life in two worlds, torn between cultures.

In addition to his novels and short stories Tomizza also wrote plays and children's books.

His published in Italy in 1997 Franziska novel was not published until after his death in German language, namely in 2001 in the Zsolnay Verlag in Vienna. Tomizza portrays in this novel a historical destiny woman from Slovenia. This novel was transferred as many other works Tomizzas, from the translator Ragni Maria Gschwend into German.

His last two novels La visitatrice and La casa col mandorlo are posthumously published in 2000 in Italy.

1999 died of Fulvio Tomizza after a serious illness. He was buried in his hometown.

Awards and honors

Fulvio Tomizza has received numerous awards for his literary work. He received several Italian literary prizes, but also international prices. For the novel La Quinta Stagione 1965 he was awarded the Premio Campiello selezione. In 1969 he was awarded for L' Albero dei Sogni the Premio Viareggio. The novel La Città di Miriam received the 1972 Premio Fiera LETTERARIA. 1977 Tomizza was the most important Italian literary prize awarded for La Vita Miglior the Premio Strega. In 1979 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature for the German translation of the novel.

1984 Fulvio Tomizza received the honorary Doctor of Literature ( Humanities ) of the University of Trieste for "its high artistic level and its intense narrative power."

Works

  • A better world. Roman ( " La miglior vita "). Dtv, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-10055-9.
  • Evil comes from the north. The history of Pier Paolo Vergerio, Bishop, heretic, reformer ( "Il male viene dal nord" ). Kiepenheuer & Malevich, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-462-01870-1.
  • The flute in the opera ( " Anche le Pulci hanno la tosse "). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1997, ISBN 3-8067-4230-8.
  • Franziska. A story from the 20th century ( " Frances "). Dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13224-8.
  • The fifth season ( " La quinta stagione "). Dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13318- X.
  • The idealist ( " L' idealista "). TSV, Vienna 1982 ( free after Ivan Cankar's novel " Marin Caćur, CV of an idealist ").
  • The Lovers from the Via Rossetti. Roman ( " Gli Sposi di via Rossetti "). Piper Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11234- X.
  • Materada. Roman ( " Materada "). Hanser Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-446-17277-7.
  • The process of Maria Janis. Roman ( " La finzione di Maria "). Dtv, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-10967- X.
  • Trieste friendship ( " L' amicizia "). Dtv, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-10238-1.
  • The fallen tower ( " La torre capo volta "). Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt, 1990, ISBN 3-85129-023-2.
  • The Venetian heiress. Roman ( " L' ereditiera Veneziana "). Piper Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22503-9.
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