Bagutta Prize
1 appearances
Michele Mari
ミケーレ・マリ
Michele Mari
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1955-12-26 （Milan, Italy）
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
Career
- Occupations
- university professor, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic
- Active Years
- 1980-
- Affiliations
- Università Statale di Milano
- Influenced By
- Walter Benjamin, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Tommaso Landolfi, Giorgio Manganelli, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Grinzane Cavour Prize | Verdigris | — | Grinzane Cavour organization | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Bagutta Prize | All the Iron of the Eiffel Tower | — | Bagutta organization | 受賞 |
| — | O. Henry Prize | — | — | O. Henry Prize organization | 受賞（翻訳作品） |
| — | PEN Translates Award | — | — | PEN Translates | 受賞（翻訳作品） |
| 2025 | PEN Translation Prize | Verdigris | — | PEN Translation Prize | 受賞（翻訳作品） |
| 1989 | Berto Prize | Di bestia in bestia | — | Berto organization | 受賞 |
Grinzane Cavour Prize
2007
Work:
Verdigris
Organization:
Grinzane Cavour organization
Result:
受賞
Bagutta Prize
2003
Work:
All the Iron of the Eiffel Tower
Organization:
Bagutta organization
Result:
受賞
O. Henry Prize
Organization:
O. Henry Prize organization
Result:
受賞（翻訳作品）
PEN Translates Award
Organization:
PEN Translates
Result:
受賞（翻訳作品）
PEN Translation Prize
2025
Work:
Verdigris
Organization:
PEN Translation Prize
Result:
受賞（翻訳作品）
Berto Prize
1989
Work:
Di bestia in bestia
Organization:
Berto organization
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
O. Henry Award
1 appearances
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Edition 102 (2024) WinnerWork: The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz
"The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz" is a short story selected for the O. Henry Prize 2024 anthology. In a compact sequence of scenes, it captures shifts in relationships and emotional tension.
A sharp short story included in the O. Henry Prize 2024 anthology.
short storyrelationshipsemotional tension
Works
Major Works
Verdigris
2007 NovelA novel that explores memory, childhood and the border between literature and life, mixing autobiographical elements and fact and fiction.
memorychildhoodmixing fact and fictionliterature as ersatz life
Translations
- Verdigris — translated by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories, 2024)
You, Bleeding Childhood
1997 Short story collectionA collection of short stories focused on childhood and memory, blending fantasy with personal recollection.
childhoodrecollectionfantasy
Translations
- You, Bleeding Childhood — translated by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories, 2023)
Swallows on the Wire
1999 NovelA novel with strong autobiographical elements, depicting childhood memories and an obsession with lives not lived.
autobiographical elementsobsessionmemory
All the Iron of the Eiffel Tower
2002 NovelA novel that blends historical figures (e.g. Walter Benjamin) with obsessive portraiture and biographical fiction.
fictionalizing historical figuresobsessionbiographical fiction
Rosso Floyd
2010 NovelA novel that borrows devices from crime, gothic and horror fiction, incorporating members of Pink Floyd and musical motifs.
musicgothichorrorparody/imitation
Private Legend
2017 NovelA recent novel exploring personal legend and reconstruction of memory, reflecting the author's recurring themes.
memorypersonal mythrecollection
Bibliography
- Di bestia in bestia
- Io venia pien d'angoscia a rimirarti
- La stiva e l'abisso
- Filologia dell'anfibio
- Rondini sul filo
- Tutto il ferro della torre Eiffel
- Verdigris
- Rosso Floyd
- Roderick Duddle
- Leggenda privata
- Le maestose rovine di Sferopoli
- Euridice aveva un cane
- You, Bleeding Childhood
- Fantasmagonia
- One Hundred Love Poems to Ladyhawke
- From the Crypt
- Milano fantasma
- The Demons and the Puff Pastry
Translations of Works
- Verderame → Verdigris (English translation by Brian Robert Moore, And Other Stories, 2024)
- Tu, sanguinosa infanzia → You, Bleeding Childhood (English translation by Brian Robert Moore, And Other Stories, 2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- postmodernparodic and monologic proseformalism with meticulous narration
- Recurring Motifs
- childhood and memoryobsession with lives not livedliterature as ersatz lifeboundary between fact and fiction
Legacy
Michele Mari is regarded as one of the leading and most original contemporary Italian authors, with notable work in poetry, criticism and scholarship. His writing—marked by memory, autobiographical elements and a mixing of fact and fiction—has been widely praised.
Quotes
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The sacrality of literature
Source: Interview (various media)
Trivia
- He is the son of the noted industrial designer Enzo Mari.
- He played in the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers' national football team.
- He is a connoisseur of science fiction and comics; this interest appears in his poetic essays.