Bagutta Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 28 (1964) Winner
Tommaso Landolfi
トンマーゾ・ランドルフィ
Tommaso Landolfi
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1908-08-09 （Pico）
- Died
- 1979-07-08 （Rome） age 70
- Nationality
- Italian
- Languages
- Italian, Russian, German
- Religion
- Atheism
- Residence History
- Pico → Florence → Rome → Sanremo → Venice
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Translator, Literary critic
- Active Years
- 1937-1979
- Affiliations
- Letteratura, Campo di Marte, Oggi, Il Mondo, Corriere della Sera
- Influenced By
- Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Influenced
- Susan Sontag, Italo Calvino
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Florence | — | Russian language and literature | — | — | Italy |
University of Florence
Russian language and literature
Year of Graduation:
1932
Country:
Italy
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Strega Prize | A caso | — | — | Winner |
Strega Prize
1975
Work:
A caso
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Strega Prize (Premio Strega)
1 appearances
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Edition 29 (1975) Winner
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Edition 48 (1977) Winner
Works
Major Works
Dialogo dei massimi sistemi
1937 Short storiesCollection of short stories from his 'youthful maturity'.
GrotesqueFantasy
La pietra lunare
1939 NovelOpens on a grotesque provincial scene where the protagonist is lured by Gurù the goat-girl into phantasmagorical horror.
Reality vs FantasyEroticism
Racconto d'autunno
1947 NovelGothic horror story metaphor for the end of an epoch during WWII.
End of an eraHorror
Translations
- An Autumn Story
Cancroregina
1950 Science fictionDiary of a man stuck in orbit unable to return to Earth.
Science fictionIsolation
Translations
- Cancerqueen
A caso
1975 Short storiesCollection of short stories that won the Strega Prize.
GrotesqueSpeculative
Bibliography
- Dialogo dei massimi sistemi
- La pietra lunare
- II mar delle blatte e altre storie
- Racconto d'autunno
- Cancroregina
- Le due zittelle
- La bière du pêcheur
- Ombre
- Rien va
- Mano rubata
- Des mois
- A caso
Translations by Author
- Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Works by Aleksandr Pushkin
- Works by Nikolai Gogol
- Works by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Translations of Works
- Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories
- Cancerqueen and Other Stories
- Words in Commotion and Other Stories
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Rare stylistic powerObscure or archaic formulationsCreating own languages
- Recurring Motifs
- Conflict between art and lifeGrotesqueBoundary between fantasy and reality
Legacy
Unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers with grotesque, speculative tales. Centro Studi Landolfiani founded by daughter in 1996.
Museums
- Centro Studi Landolfiani Italy Opened in 1996
Trivia
- Avid gambler
- From a noble family
- Atheist