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Angelo Maria Ripellino

アンジェロ・マリア・リペッリーノ

Anjero Maria Ripellino

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1923-12-04 (Palermo)
Died
1978-04-21 (Rome) age 54
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian, Russian, Czech, Polish
Residence History
Palermo → Prague → Bologna → Rome

Career

Occupations
translator, poet, linguist, academic, theatre critic
Active Years
1940-1978
Affiliations
University of Bologna, Sapienza University of Rome, Einaudi, Corriere della Sera, L'Espresso
Influenced
Boris Pasternak, Alexander Blok

Education

University of Palermo
Slavistics
Period: 1940s
Year of Graduation: 1945
Country: Italy
Graduated in Slavistics
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Filmmaking
Period: 1947
Country: Italy
Enrolled in filmmaking courses

Awards

Viareggio Prize
1965
Work: The Trick and the Soul. The masters of stage direction in 20th-century Russian theatre
Organization: Viareggio Prize committee
Result: winner
Mondello Prize Special Jury Prize
1983
Organization: Mondello Prize
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Poesia russa del Novecento

1954 Poetry anthology

Russian Poetry of the 20th Century

Russian poetry

Majakovskij e il teatro russo d’avanguardia

1959 Criticism

Majakovsky and Russian avant-garde theatre

Russian theatre

Magic Prague

1973 Literary history

Magic Prague

Prague literature

Health

  • Tuberculosis
    幼少期から
    Underwent pneumectomy, died from cardiovascular crisis

Legacy

Key figure in introducing Russian, Polish, and Czech-Slovak literature to Italy through translations and criticism

Trivia

  • Married Ela Hlochova, a Czech student of Italian literature, who became his lifelong collaborator
  • Received Mondello Prize Special Jury Prize with his wife