fiction.wikisort.org - WriterPaolo Volponi (6 February 1924, in Urbino, – 23 August 1994, in Ancona) was an Italian writer, poet, and politician.
Paolo Volponi |
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Born | (1924-02-06)February 6, 1924 Urbino, Italy |
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Died | August 23, 1994(1994-08-23) (aged 70) Ancona, Italy |
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Alma mater | University of Urbino |
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Profession | Poet and writer |
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Biography
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Volpino was born February 6, 1924 in Urbino, Italy. He would join the Italian partisans in 1943.[1]
He studied law at Urbino University, where he graduated in 1947.[1] His career as a writer was profoundly influenced by his meeting with the enlightened social thinker and industrialist Adriano Olivetti in 1950, for whom he worked as an assistant and then as director of social services at the Olivetti factory at Ivrea.[2] He moved to Turin in 1972 to join Fiat and was appointed president of the Fondazione Agnelli in 1975 but was obliged to resign because of his open support for the Italian Communist Party.[3] He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1983.[4]
Volpino died on August 23, 1994.[5]
Works
His first volume of poems, Il ramarro, was published in 1948; he won the Viareggio Prize in 1960 for Le porte dell'Appennino and the Mondello Prize in 1986 for Con testo a fronte.
His novels explore the ills of Italian society in the years of industrial expansion after the Second World War, while powerfully constructing a visionary fictional world.[2] His first novel, Memoriale (1962), describes the atmosphere of growing violence in a factory environment and in society as seen through the eyes of a working man, leading to his alienation and a gradual descent into madness.[6]
La macchina mondiale won the Strega Prize in 1965. Its tragic main character, a peasant-philosopher living in the Marche region, has been described as "surely one of the most bewilderingly pathetic figures in contemporary Italian fiction".[7]
In Corporale (1974), an ex-communist intellectual becomes obsessed by the threat of nuclear war and builds himself a shelter in the hope of emerging, once it is all over, closer to the animal world.
Il sipario ducale (1975), with which he won the Viareggio Prize in 1975 for the second time, marked a return to a more traditional form with a story told against the background of a bomb attack in Piazza Fontana, Milan in 1969.
Il pianeta irritabile (1978) is an allegorical story set in 2293 where four characters – a baboon, an elephant, a goose and a dwarf – escape a final explosion and wander off looking for a safe kingdom, encountering traps and terrifying obstacles, in a perpetual guerrilla activity whose scenes take place under diluvian rains that threaten to engulf the whole planet. There is no real end in sight, and this is the most disturbing aspect of the whole novel. "Everything is pointless. Volponi is the Samuel Beckett of science fiction in this work."[8][9]
Il lanciatore di giavellotto (1981) contains a portrait of a troubled adolescent boy, Dami, which is "the most memorable of all such portraits since JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, written 30 years before".[8]
Le mosche del capitale (1989) charts the rise and fall of an industrialist poet.
With La strada per Roma (1991), Volponi became the first of only two Italian writers to win the Strega Prize twice.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Memoriale (1962) – trans. Belén Sevareid – My Troubles Began (Grossman: New York, 1964); The Memorandum (Marion Boyars: London, 1967)
- La macchina mondiale (1965) – trans. Belén Sevareid – The Worldwide Machine (Grossman: New York, 1964; Calder and Boyars: London, 1969)
- Corporale (1974)
- Il sipario ducale (1975) – trans. Peter Pedroni – Last Act in Urbino (Italica Press: New York, 1995)
- Il pianeta irritabile (1978)
- Il lanciatore di giavellotto (1981) – trans. Richard Dixon - The Javelin Thrower (Chicago University Press / Seagull Books, 2019)
- Le mosche del capitale (1989)
- La strada per Roma (1991)
Poetry
- Il ramarro (1948)
- L'antica moneta (1955)
- Le porte dell'Appennino (1960);
- La nuova pesa (1964)
- Le mura di Urbino (1973)
- La vita (1974)
- Foglia mortale (1974)
- Con testo a fronte (1986)
- Nel silenzio campale (1990)
- È per un'impudente vanteria (1991)
Non-fiction
- Scritti dal margine (1994)
- Il leone e la volpe (1995)
Works in magazines
- Una luce celeste (1965)
- I sovrani e la ricchezza (1967)
- Accingersi all'impresa (1967)
- La barca Olimpia (1968)
- Olimpia e la pietra (1968)
- Case dell'alta valle del Metauro (1989)
Compilations
- Poesie e poemetti 1946–1966 (1980)
- Catalogo generale delle opere di Dolorès Puthod. Dipinti e disegni dal 1948 al 1994 (Milan, Giorgio Mondadori, 1994) ISBN 88-374-1379-3.
- Poesie (2001)
- Romanzi e prose I, II, III (2002–2003)
Volponi’s poems in translation appear in From Pure Silence to Impure Dialogue: a survey of post-war Italian poetry 1945–1965, edited and translated by Vittoria Bradshaw (New York: Las Americas, 1971).
References
- Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo (26 December 2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9.
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, edited by Gino Moliterno (Routledge, 2000)
- La Fiat: da Giovanni a Luca, Alberto & Giancarlo Mazzucca, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, Milan, 2004, p.314
- "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Paolo VOLPONI - IX Legislatura". www.senato.it. Italian Senate. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ""Paolo Volponi dimenticato: ma le sue idee sono attuali"". il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 15 August 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- Alberto Asor Rosa, Storia della Letterature italiana, La nuova italia, 1985, p. 645
- R. L. Clements, Saturday Review, 9 December 1967, Vol 50, no. 49
- James Kirkup, The Independent obituary, 2 September 1994
- Mobili, Giorgio (2008). Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-9713-6.
Further reading
- Gian Carlo Ferretti, Volponi (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1972)
- Gregory Lucente, "The Play of Literary Self-consciousness in Paolo Volponi's Fiction: Violence and the Power of the Symbol," World Literature Today 61 (Winter 1987), 19–23
- Peter Pedroni, "Interview with Paolo Volponi", Italian Quarterly 25 (Spring 1984)
- Peter Pedroni, "Introduction", Last Act in Urbino (New York: Italica Press, 1995)
- Massimo Colella, Cartografia del contemporaneo. Lettura di 'Con testo a fronte' di Paolo Volponi (1986), in «Rivista di Studi Italiani» (Toronto), XXXVIII, 2, 2019, pp. 177-207.
Awards received by Paolo Volponi |
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Recipients of the Strega Prize |
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2001–present | |
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize |
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2000s | |
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2010s | Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019) |
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2020s | Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) |
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Recipients of the Mondello Prize |
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| Special Jury Prize: Denise McSmith (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • Jurij Trifonov (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • Wang Meng (1987) • Mikhail Gorbaciov (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) • Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995) • Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • Francesco Burdin (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) • Marina Rullo (2006) • Andrea Ceccherini (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • Francesco Forgione (2010) | | First poetic work: Giovanni Giuga (1978) • Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979) | | | First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985) • Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986) • Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • Anna Cascella (1991) • Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993) • Ernesto Franco (1994) • Roberto Deidier (1995) • Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) • Alba Donati (1998) • Paolo Febbraro (1999) • Evelina Santangelo (2000) • Giuseppe Lupo (2001) • Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003) • Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) • Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) • Francesco Fontana (2006) • Paolo Fallai (2007) • Luca Giachi (2008) • Carlo Carabba (2009) • Gabriele Pedullà (2010) | | Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • Oreste del Buono (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995) • Nico Orengo (1996) • Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • Roberto Alajmo (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010) • pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013) • pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017) | | | "Ignazio Buttitta" Award: Nino De Vita (2003) • Attilio Lolini (2005) • Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006) • Silvia Bre (2007) | | Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010) • Antonio Calabrò (2011) | Poetry prize: Antonio Riccardi (2010) | Translation Award: Evgenij Solonovic (2010) | Identity and dialectal literatures award: Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010) | Essays Prize: Marzio Barbagli (2010) | Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011) | | "Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011) | Prize for Literary Criticism: Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • Enrico Testa (2014) • Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • Antonio Prete (2017) | Award for best motivation: Simona Gioè (2012) | Special award for travel literature: Marina Valensise (2013) | Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014) |
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- [en] Paolo Volponi
[es] Paolo Volponi
Paolo Volponi (6 de febrero de 1924, Urbino - 23 de agosto de 1994, Ancona) es un escritor, poeta, narrador y político italiano. Está considerado como uno de los más destacados representantes de la llamada «literatura industrial». Durante muchos años, compaginó su trabajo como escritor con actividades en grandes industrias.
[fr] Paolo Volponi
Paolo Volponi (né à Urbino, le 6 février 1924, et mort à Ancône, le 23 août 1994) est un écrivain, poète et homme politique italien.
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