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Carlo Cassola

かるろ・かーそら

Karuro Kāsora

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1917-03-17 (Rome)
Died
1987-01-29 (Montecarlo, Tuscany) age 69
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Rome, Italy → Montecarlo, Tuscany, Italy

Career

Occupations
novelist, essayist
Active Years
1955-1987

Awards

Strega Prize
1960
Work: La ragazza di Bube
Organization: Strega Prize committee
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La ragazza di Bube

1960 novel

A story revolving around Bebo's girl.

Adaptations
  • [film] La ragazza di Bube / Luigi Comencini (1963)
Translations
  • Bebo's girl

Bibliography

  • La ragazza di Bube
  • Il taglio del bosco
  • Fausto and Anna
  • An arid heart
  • Bebo's girl
  • Il cacciatore
  • Un cuore arido

Translations of Works

  • Bebo's girl
  • An arid heart
  • Fausto and Anna

Legacy

An Italian novelist and essayist who won the Strega Prize for La ragazza di Bube (1960), adapted into a film in 1963 by Luigi Comencini.

Trivia

  • Not to be confused with Carla Cassola.