Giuseppe Pontiggia
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Giuseppe Pontiggia in 1994
Giuseppe Pontiggia (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ponˈtiddʒa]; 25 September 1934 - 27 June 2003) was an Italian writer and literary critic.
Biography[]
He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting from 1961.
His first novel was L'arte della fuga of 1968. Pontiggia won the Premio Strega in 1989 with La grande sera and the Premio Campiello in 2001 with Nati due volte. He also wrote numerous articles and essays.
He died in Milan in 2003 by a circulatory stroke. He was an atheist.[1]
Bibliography[]
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Giuseppe Pontiggia with Alberto Arbasino
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Giuseppe Pontiggia autograph
Essays[]
- (1984)
- (1991)
- (1996)
- (1998)
Novels and short story anthologies[]
- (1959)
- (1968; 1990 revised)
- (1978)
- (1983)
- (1989)
- (1994)
- (2000)
- (2002)
- (2003, posthumous)
References[]
- ^ Domenico Scafoglio, Felice Piemontese, L'invenzione della realtà, Guida Editori, 1994, p. 121.
External links[]
- Browse Pontiggia library catalogue [1] kept by Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura.
Categories:
- 1934 births
- 2003 deaths
- People from Como
- Italian atheists
- Italian literary critics
- Italian male non-fiction writers
- Strega Prize winners
- Premio Campiello winners