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Ignazio Silone

イグナーツィオ・ジローネ

Ignazio Silone

Aliases: Secondino Tranquilli

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1900-05-01 （Pescina, Abruzzo）
Died
1978-08-22 （Geneva, Switzerland） age 78
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Religion
Christian
Residence History
Pescina, Abruzzo, Italy → Switzerland (exile) → Rome, Italy

Career

Occupations
Author, Politician
Active Years
1917-1978
Affiliations
Italian Socialist Party (PSI), Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I), Unitary Socialist Party (PSU)
Memberships
PEN International President (1946-1947)
Influenced By
Alfonso Leonetti
Influenced
Heinrich Böll, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature nominee (13 times from 1946 to 1970s)

Awards

Jerusalem Prize
1969
Organization: City of Jerusalem
Result: Winner
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
1971
Organization: Fondation Cino et Simone Del Duca
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Fontamara

1930 Social novel

A novel depicting the hardships of poor peasants in Abruzzo and fascist oppression.

povertyinjusticesocial oppression
Adaptations
  • [Film] Fontamara / Carlo Lizzani (1977)
Translations
  • Translated into numerous languages

Bibliography

  • Fontamara (1930), Bread and Wine (1936), The Seed Beneath the Snow (1941), etc.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realismsimple proseuse of dialect
Recurring Motifs
peasant lifeanti-fascismChristian socialism

Health

  • Tuberculosis
    1930年代
    Spent time in Swiss clinics
  • Clinical depression
    1930年代
    Severe, required treatment

Legacy

Famous internationally for anti-fascist novels. Criticized in Italy after break with Communist Party, but appreciated abroad. Controversy over fascist police ties.

Museums

  • Casa di Ignazio Silone Pescina, Italy

In Popular Culture

  • Fontamara as emblematic work

Trivia

  • Nobel Prize in Literature nominee 13 times
  • 1990s controversy over fascist informant allegations
  • Author of the Abruzzo Trilogy