Elio vittorini biography
Elio vittorini biography
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Elio Vittorini
Italian writer and novelist
Elio Vittorini | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Elio Vittorini (Italian:[ˈɛːljovittoˈriːni]ⓘ; 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.
Ernest Hemingway was an admirer of Vittorini, going so far as to write an admiring introduction to the American edition of Conversation in Sicily. Compare the two authors writing styles. What simi...
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 Eng