Elio Vittorini
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Elio Vittorini was an Italian writer, linguist, translator, and editor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, on July 23, 1908, he held citizenship in Italy and the Kingdom of Italy. He worked primarily in Milan, where he also died on February 12, 1966. His death resulted from stomach cancer, classified as natural causes.
Vittorini spoke and wrote in English and Italian. He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and the Radical Party. His literary output included essays and works such as *Piccola borghesia*, *Teatro spagnolo*, *Conversation in Sicily*, *Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus*, and *Le due tensioni*. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1908
- Died
- 1966
- Works
- 90
Top works
- Piccola borghesia
- Teatro spagnolo
- Conversation in Sicily
- Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus
- Le due tensioni
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Film & TV
Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Known for
- Romeo and Juliet — Bartolomeo1954
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1908-07-23 ) 23 July 1908, Syracuse , Sicily , Italy
- Died
- 12 February 1966 (1966-02-12) (aged 57), Milan , Italy
- Occupation
- Writer, novelist, editor, politician
- Language
- Italian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Syracuse
- Place of death
- Milan
- Occupation
- novelist
- Political party
- Radical Party
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- essay
- Image
- Elio Vittorini 1949.jpg
- Work location
- Milan
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- date of birth
- 1908-07-23
- date of death
- 1966-02-12
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Commons category
- Elio Vittorini
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Elio Vittorini ( Italian: [ˈɛːljo vittoˈriːni] ; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
Vittorini was one of the most prominent writers of Italian Neorealism in literature. His own works of fiction, along with his translations of such American and English writers as William Saroyan, D. H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway, had a considerable impact on the movement and on Italian post-war literature.
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