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Edition 41 (1970) Winner
Pietro Citati
ピエトロ・チターティ
Pietro Citati
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1930-02-20 （Florence）
- Died
- 2022-07-28 （Roccamare (Castiglione della Pescaia)） age 92
- Nationality
- Italian
- Languages
- Italian
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Florence → Turin → Liguria → Tuscany → Pisa → Frascati and outskirts of Rome → Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia
Career
- Occupations
- writer, literary critic, teacher
- Active Years
- 1951-2022
- Affiliations
- Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica
- Influenced By
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Influenced
- Italo Calvino
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio | — | Classics | — | — | Italy |
| University of Pisa | Faculty of Letters | Modern Literature | laurea | Scuola Normale Superiore学生として | Italy |
Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio
Classics
Country:
Italy
high school
University of Pisa
Faculty of Letters
/ Modern Literature
Degree:
laurea
Period:
Scuola Normale Superiore学生として
Year of Graduation:
1951
Country:
Italy
student of the Scuola Normale Superiore
Awards & Nominations
Bagutta Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 45 (1981) Winner
Premi Flaiano (Flaiano Prizes)
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1982) Winner
Strega Prize (Premio Strega)
1 appearances
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Edition 38 (1984) Winner
Works
Major Works
Goethe
1970 BiographyBiography of Goethe
literary criticism
Translations
- English translation available
Alexandro
1974 BiographyBiography of Alexander the Great
history
Tolstoy
1983 BiographyBiography of Tolstoy
literature
Translations
- English translation available
Kafka
1987 BiographyBiography of Kafka
literary criticism
Translations
- English translation available
La colomba pugnalata. Proust e la richerche
1995 Literary criticismCriticism on Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Proust
La mente colorata. Ulisse e l'Odissea
2002 CriticismOn Ulysses and the Odyssey
Greek mythology
La morte della farfalla. Zelda e Francis Scott Fitzgerald
2006 BiographyBiography of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
American literature
Adaptations
- Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino (2012, documentary)
Translations of Works
- Works in English translation
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- biographical literatureliterary criticismnon-fiction
- Recurring Motifs
- lives of great writersGreek mythsHermeticism
Legacy
Prominent Italian writer and literary critic known for biographies of Goethe, Kafka, Proust, and others, with long career in major newspapers.
Quotes
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'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him.'
Source: Kafka (1987)
Trivia
- Born into a noble Sicilian family
- Thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino
- Married to Tuscan Elena Londini