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Edition 23 (1952) Winner
Tommaso Fiore
トンマーゾ・フィオーレ
Tommaso Fiore
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1884-03-07 （Altamura）
- Died
- 1973-06-04 age 89
- Nationality
- Italian
- Languages
- Italian
- Residence History
- Altamura, Italy → Bari, Italy
Career
- Occupations
- Teacher, writer, politician
- Active Years
- 1909-1973
- Affiliations
- Italian Freemasonry
- Memberships
- Masonic lodge number 1799 in Altamura
- Influenced By
- Piero Gobetti, Pietro Nenni, Carlo Rosselli
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminary school in Conversano | — | Classical literature | — | — | Italy |
Seminary school in Conversano
Classical literature
Country:
Italy
For gifted students who couldn't afford public high schools
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Viareggio Prize | Un popolo di formiche | — | Premio Viareggio | winner |
Viareggio Prize
1952
Work:
Un popolo di formiche
Organization:
Premio Viareggio
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Un popolo di formiche
1952 EssayDescribes the inhumane working conditions and poverty of Southern Italian peasants, particularly in the Murgia region, likening their industriousness to ants while advocating for land reform.
Land reformpoliticssocialismSouthern Italian peasants
Il cafone all'inferno
1955 EssayEssay depicting the hardships of Southern Italian peasants.
Southern Italian povertypeasants' hardships
Bibliography
- Un popolo di formiche (1952)
- Il cafone all'inferno (1955)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- DescriptiveSocially critical
- Recurring Motifs
- Poverty of Southern Italian peasantsDry-stone walling laborSocialist reform
Legacy
Meridionalist writer, intellectual, and politician focused on Southern Italy's issues, particularly Apulian peasants' conditions. Known as Viareggio Prize winner and anti-fascist resistor.
Museums
- Parco Letterario Formiche di Puglia Puglia
- Il circolo delle formiche Altamura
Quotes
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And everywhere walls and walls, not ten, not twenty, but more, many more, horizontally aligned on the flanks of each relief, even a few meters away, to contain the ground, to collect and hold it among so much limestone. You may wonder how those people managed to dig and align so much stone. I believe this work would have frightened a people of giants. This is the most rugged and stony Murgia ; ... nothing more than the industriousness of a people of ants was needed in order to accomplish this massive work.
Source: Un popolo di formiche (1952)
Trivia
- Served as mayor of his hometown Altamura in the 1920s.
- Exiled internally in 1942 and imprisoned in 1943 for anti-fascist activities.
- Lost his son Graziano in a fascist massacre in Bari in 1943.
- Joined Italian Freemasonry in 1909 and became Master Mason in 1915.
- Post-WWII, taught Latin grammar and literature at the University of Bari.