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Alessandro Baricco

アレッサンドロ・バリッコ

Aressandoro Barikko

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1958-01-25 （Turin）
Nationality
イタリア, Italy
Languages
イタリア語, Italian
Residence History
Turin

Career

Occupations
writer, director, performer, music critic, journalist
Active Years
1988-
Affiliations
Scuola Holden (co-founder)

Education

University of Turin
Philosophy
Degree: 哲学の学位
Country: Italy
Earned degree in philosophy under Gianni Vattimo
Unknown
Music
Degree: ピアノの学位
Country: Italy
Earned degree in piano

Awards

Prix Médicis étranger
1991
Work: Lands of Glass
Organization: France
Result: 受賞
Palazzo al Bosco
1993
Work: Ocean Sea
Result: 受賞
Viareggio Prize
1993
Result: 受賞
Selezione Campiello
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Ocean Sea

1993 novel

A fantastical story set in a seaside hotel

seafantasyhuman relationships

Silk

1996 novel

Story of a 19th-century French silk merchant and a Japanese geisha

lovetravelcross-culture
Adaptations
  • [film] Silk / François Girard (2007)

Novecento

1994 monologue

Dramatic monologue about the life of a pianist on a ship

musicisolationsea
Adaptations
  • [film] The Legend of 1900 / Giuseppe Tornatore (1998)

Bibliography

  • Lands of Glass
  • Ocean Sea
  • Silk
  • City
  • Without Blood
  • Emmaus
  • Mr Gwyn
  • The Young Bride
  • Abel

Adaptations

  • The Legend of 1900 (film)
  • Silk (film)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
poeticfragmentedmusical
Recurring Motifs
seamusictravel

Health

  • chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
    2022年-現在
    Announced in 2022, undergoing treatment

Legacy

Important contemporary Italian writer, internationally translated and popular. Co-founded Scuola Holden.

Trivia

  • Named his school after Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.