Antonio Pennacchi

Antonio Pennacchi 2010

Antonio Pennacchi (born January 26, 1950 in Latina ; † August 3, 2021 ibid) was an Italian writer .

Life

Pennacchi's parents had been settled on the Pontine Plain during the fascist era of Italy when the swamps there were drained. He worked as a shift worker and commuted in his political socialization between the Italian neo-fascists and the Maoists . In the 1970s he was active in the Italian trade union movement , with the socialists and the communists . In 2007 he joined the Partito Democratico .

In 1982 he started writing. The novel Mio fratello è figlio unico was filmed in 2007 ( My brother is an only child ). The short film Tatting Verdi was also based on a story by him. In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Strega for the novel Canale Mussolini .

Fonts (selection)

• Canale Mussolini. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23860-2 .
• A red cloud. Luchterhand, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-630-87088-0 .
• Fascio e martello, Viaggio per le città del duce. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010, ISBN 978-88-420-9229-2 .
• Il fasciocomunista: vita scriteriata di Accio Benassi; romanzo. Mondadori, Milano 2003, ISBN 88-04-48822-0 .
• Mammoth. Donizelli, Rome 1994, ISBN 88-7989-086-7 .

Web links

Commons : Antonio Pennacchi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Antonio Pennacchi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Antonio Pennacchi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Antonio Pennacchi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Antonio Pennacchi at Pearl Divers
• Antonio Pennacchi ( Memento of January 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Web presence

Individual evidence

1. ^ È morto Antonio Pennacchi. Lo scrittore aveva 71 anni. In: repubblica.it. August 3, 2021, accessed August 3, 2021 (Italian). 
2. ^ A. Pennacchi: Fascio e martello, Viaggio per le città del duce. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010, p. 137.
3. ↑ Tatting verdi. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .