Bagutta Prize
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Edition 33 (1969) Winner
Niccolò Tucci
ニッコロ・トゥッチ
Niccolò Tucci
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1908-05-01 （Lugano, Switzerland）
- Died
- 1999-12-10 age 91
- Nationality
- Italy, Switzerland, United States
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Residence History
- Lugano (birth) → Tuscany (raised) → United States (immigrated, 1938)
Career
- Occupations
- short story writer, novelist
- Active Years
- 1930-1999
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Bagutta Prize | — | — | Bagutta Prize committee | 受賞 |
Bagutta Prize
1969
Organization:
Bagutta Prize committee
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Il Segreto
1956 short stories / fictionA collection of short stories in Italian touching on personal memory, family narratives and social change.
memoryfamilymigration
Before My Time
1962 autobiographical novelAn autobiographical novel recounting childhood, upheaval caused by revolution, and family transformations.
revolutionlossidentity
Unfinished Funeral
1964 novelA novel dealing with death, loss and ritual, interweaving personal history with historic events.
deathritualmemory
Gli Atlantici
1968 novelDeals with movement, crossing borders and generational conflict; reflects experiences of migration from Europe to America.
border-crossingmigrationgenerations
Confessioni Involontarie
1975 essays / short storiesA collection of autobiographical fragments and observations; short pieces resembling personal confessions.
self-confessionobservationeveryday life
The Sun and the Moon
1977 novelA novel with a symbolic title portraying a succession of contrasting emotions and events.
contrastemotionstime
The Rain Came Last and Other Stories
1990 short story collectionA selection of short stories written in English, dealing with wartime, immigrant life and individual loneliness.
lonelinesswarimmigrant experience
Bibliography
- Il Segreto (1956)
- Before My Time (1962)
- Unfinished Funeral (1964)
- Gli Atlantici (1968)
- Confessioni Involontarie (1975)
- The Sun and the Moon (1977)
- The Rain Came Last and Other Stories (1990)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- autobiographical and reflective styleconcise, observational short fictionwrites in both Italian and English
- Recurring Motifs
- exile and migrationmemory and recollectionfamily and kinshiprevolution and social collapse
Legacy
A writer who produced works in both Italian and English. Known for strongly autobiographical short stories and novels, he won the Bagutta Prize in 1969 and published in English after immigrating to the United States.
Trivia
- Born in Lugano, Switzerland in 1908 to a Russian mother and an Italian father who later became a Swiss citizen.
- Resigned a post with Mussolini's Press Ministry in 1938 and emigrated to the United States.
- His daughter Maria Tucci is an actress and married his former editor Robert Gottlieb.
- Many of his works are largely autobiographical, dealing with family history and the effects of revolution.