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Daniele Del Giudice

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Daniele Del Giudice

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1949-01-11 (Rome, Italy)
Died
2021-09-02 age 72
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Venice, Italy → Rome, Italy

Career

Occupations
author, lecturer, essayist, literary critic
Active Years
1970-2021
Affiliations
University Iuav of Venice
Influenced By
Dario Fo, Roberto Bazlen

Awards

Viareggio Prize (Opera Prima Narrativa)
1983
Work: Wimbledon Stadium
Category: Opera Prima Narrativa
Organization: Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci
Result: 受賞
Bergamo Prize
1986
Organization: Bergamo Prize
Result: 受賞
Bagutta Prize
1995
Work: Take-off
Organization: Bagutta Prize
Result: 受賞
Flaiano Prize
1995
Work: Take-off
Organization: Premi Flaiano
Result: 受賞
Premio Campiello (Selection)
1995
Category: 選考
Organization: Premio Campiello
Result: 選出
Premio Campiello (Selection)
1997
Category: 選考
Organization: Premio Campiello
Result: 選出
Feltrinelli Prize
2002
Organization: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei / Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
Result: 受賞
European Union Prize for Literature
2009
Organization: European Union
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Wimbledon Stadium

1983 Novel

A novel inspired by writer Roberto Bazlen, telling of a writer who gives up writing to lead an active life. The story explores memory, identity, and the meaning of creative work.

memorylife of a writeridentity
Adaptations
  • [Film] Le Stade de Wimbledon (2002)
Translations
  • A Fictional Inquiry (English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2025)

Atlante occidentale

1985 Novel/Prose

A contemplative work traveling through western landscapes, containing fragmentary prose themed around light, maps, and visual images.

travelvisionmaps
Translations
  • Lines of Light (translated by Norman MacAfee and Luigi Fontanella, 1988)

Nel museo di Reims

1988 Essay/Prose

A work that explores memory and history through observations in museums and fragmentary texts.

artmemoryhistory

Taccuino Australe

1990 Diary/Travel writing

A six-part diary of a journey to Antarctica, originally published in newspapers (Corriere della Sera and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

travelnatureisolation

Take-off

1994 Essay/Reflection

A collection of reflections, memories and anecdotes about aviation, considering human experience through flight and take-off stories.

aviationmemorytechnology and humanity
Translations
  • English translation: Take-off (translated by Joseph Farrell, 1996)

Mania

1997 Novel/Prose

A work delving into concerns of the 1990s and inner worlds.

psychologyinner life

Orizzonte mobile

2009 Prose/Essays

An essayistic work themed around a moving horizon, containing reflections on memory and vision.

visionmemoryboundaries

Bibliography

  • Lo stadio di Wimbledon (1983)
  • Atlante occidentale (1985)
  • Nel museo di Reims (1988)
  • Taccuino Australe (1990)
  • Staccando l'ombra da terra (Take-off) (1994)
  • Mania (1997)
  • Orizzonte mobile (2009)

Adaptations

  • Film adaptation of Lo stadio di Wimbledon (Le Stade de Wimbledon, 2002)

Translations of Works

  • Lo stadio di Wimbledon → A Fictional Inquiry (English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2025)
  • Atlante occidentale → Lines of Light (translated by Norman MacAfee & Luigi Fontanella, 1988)
  • Staccando l'ombra da terra → Take-off (English translation by Joseph Farrell, 1996)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyrical and intellectual proseessayistic narrationfragmentary and experimental structure
Recurring Motifs
memoryvision and lighttravel and movementaviation and take-offtheatre

Legacy

Daniele Del Giudice was an Italian writer and critic known for intellectual, poetic prose focused on vision and memory. He received several major literary prizes, taught in Venice, and was translated and recognized internationally.

Trivia

  • Lived in Venice and taught theatrical literature at the University Iuav of Venice.
  • First novel Lo stadio di Wimbledon (1983) was adapted into a film (2002).
  • Won the Bagutta Prize and Flaiano Prize in 1995 for Staccando l'ombra da terra (Take-off).
  • Received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2009.
  • Died on 2 September 2021 at age 72.