Giovanni Arpino
Giovanni Arpino ( born January 27, 1927 in Pula ( Istria), † December 10, 1987 in Turin ) was an Italian writer and journalist.
Life and work
The son of a Neapolitan father and a mother Piedmontese Giovanni Arpino spent his childhood in several places in Northern Italy, as the military career of his father Tommaso forces the family to frequent moves. It was not until 1943 finds the family their final home in Bra, in the headquarters of the Mother Maddalena Berzia. In Bra Arpino makes his high school before he only devoted to the Jurassic and then studying literature.
In 1951 he finished his studies with a thesis on Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin, while Elio Vittorini can inspire his novel Be stato felice, Giovanni 1952, so that it appears in the Einaudi publishing house. In 1953 he married Caterina Brero and moved with her to Turin, where he finds employment at Einaudi and remains until his death.
In addition to his literary and publishing operation he works primarily as a sports journalist for La Stampa and Il Giornale. Together with Gianni Brera, he succeeds in improving the sports coverage in Italy quality and to give it a literary level. With Azzurro tenebra (1977 ) writes even Arpino also a football novel, his most important work in this genre of its own.
Arpinos written rather dry and ironic novels are honored with several awards: In 1964 he received the Premio Strega for L' ombra delle colline; 1972 Premio Campiello for Randagio è l' eroe and 1980, the Premio Campiello for Super Il fratello italiano. In addition, he wrote numerous plays, stories and poems for children (Le mille e una Italia, and others). It is thanks to him that the Argentinian writer Osvaldo Soriano is known in Italy.
On his death in 1987 also remains Arpino Bra, the city of his youth, connected in a special way: a cultural center and a children's literary award, where it is dedicated in honor.
Swell
Works
Original editions
- Be stato felice, Giovanni (1952 )
- Il prezzo dell'oro (1957 ), poetry book
- Gli anni del giudizio (1958 )
- La suora giovane (1959 )
- Un delitto d' onore (1960 )
- Una nuvola d' ira (1962 )
- L' ombra delle colline (1962), awarded the Premio Strega 1964
- Un'anima persa (1966 )
- La babbuina (1967)
- Il buio e il miele (1969 )
- Randagio è l' eroe (1972 ), winner of the Premio Campiello 1972
- Racconti di vent'anni (1974 )
- L' altre storie assalto al treno ed (1974 )
- Rafe e Micropiede (1974 )
- Domingo il favoloso (1975 )
- Il primo quarto di luna (1976 )
- Azzurro tenebra (1977 )
- Il fratello italiano (1980 ), awarded the Premio SuperCampiello 1980
- Le mille e una Italia (1980 )
- Un gran mare di gente (1981 )
- Bocce ferme (1982 )
- La sposa segreta (1983 )
- Il contadino genes ( 1985)
- Passo d' addio (1986 )
- La trappola amorosa (posthumous, 1988)
- Serghej A. Esenin. L' estremo cantore dell'Antica Russia di fronte alla rivoluzione. Venice: Marsilio, 1997
- Opere scelte. Edited by Rolando Damiani. Milan: Mondadori, 2005
German translations
- From offended honor. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1964
- In the shadow of the hills. Berlin: Aufbau -Verlag, 1969
- Bruno and cog. Zurich / Cologne: Benziger, 1973
- An odd couple. ( Unabridged ) Munich: King, 1973
- Italy. Frankfurt / Main: Umschau -Verlag, 1988
- Scent of a Woman. München: Heyne, 1993
Films
- For Renzo e Luciana, an episode from Boccaccio '70 (1962, by Italo Calvino story L' avventura di due Sposi ), Arpino writes along with Calvino, director Mario Monicelli and Susi Cecchi D' Amico the script.
- His novel Il buio e il miele is Dino Risi's film Profumo di donna (1974 ) basis, in which Vittorio Gassman Captain Fausto Consolo and Agostina Belli plays Sara. Even Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman (1992 ) is based on this foundation.
- Un'anima persian filmed Dino Risi 1977 in Anima persa with Vittorio Gassman as Fabio Pride and Catherine Deneuve as Sofia pride.
- The 1991 published documentary Un livre un jour ( Director: Olivier Altman / Pierre Barboni ) used recordings in which Arpino plays himself.