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Alberto Bevilacqua

アルベルト・ベヴィラックア

Aruberuto Bevirakkuwa

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1934-06-27 （Parma）
Died
2013-09-09 （Rome） age 79
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Parma → Rome

Career

Occupations
writer, film director, screenwriter
Active Years
1955-2013
Influenced By
Leonardo Sciascia

Awards

Campiello Prize
1966
Work: This Kind of Love
Result: winner
Cannes Best Film
1971
Work: This Kind of Love
Organization: Cannes Film Festival
Result: winner
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
2010
Organization: Italian Republic
Result: recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Dust on the Grass

1955 short stories

First collection of stories

everyday life

Friendship Lost

1961 poetry

First book of poems

Caliph

1964 novel

Breakthrough novel featuring strong female protagonist Irene Corsini.

strong female characters
Adaptations
  • [film] Lady Caliph / Alberto Bevilacqua (1970)

This Kind of Love

1966 novel

Winner of Campiello Prize.

Adaptations
  • [film] Questa specie d'amore / Alberto Bevilacqua (1971)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
poetic style
Recurring Motifs
strong female characters

Health

  • heart failure
    2012-10-11から2013-09-09
    Hospitalized, died of cardiac arrest

Legacy

Important Italian writer whose works were translated across Europe, US, Brazil, China, Japan.

Trivia

  • Included in 'I Meridiani' series in 2010.