Carmine Abate

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Carmine Abate (2008)

Carmine Abate (born October 24, 1954 in Carfizzi ) is an Italian writer.

Life

Carmine Abate comes from a family of the Arbëresh , a long-established Albanian ethnic minority. Abate grew up in the province of Crotone and studied literature at the University of Bari . In 1977 he published his first volume of poetry. Abate worked as a teacher in a school class for migrant children in Hamburg , where his father had moved as a migrant worker. In 1984, together with Meike Behrmann, he published Die Germanesi in German , a volume of stories from the lives of Italian migrant workers . The book was also translated into Italian with the title I Germanesi, storia e vita di una comunità calabrese e dei suoi emigranti .

After ten years Abate moved back to Italy and has lived in Besenello in Trentino ever since .

Abate has received various literary prizes, including the Premio Campiello in 2012 and the Premio Stresa in 2016 .

In 2013 he was made an honorary citizen of Crotone .

Works (selection)

  • Nel labirinto della vita . Poetry. Juvenilia, Rome 1977
  • Contribution in: Giuseppe Giambusso (Hrsg.): Roots, here: poems Italian emigrants = Le radici, qui . Graphics by Franco Maldera. Edition CON, Bremen 1982, ISBN 9783885260554
  • The suitcase and away! : Stories . Translation by Meike Behrmann. Neuer Malik, Kiel 1984
  • with Meike Behrmann: The Germanesi: History and life of a southern Italian village community and its emigrants . Afterword by Norbert Elias . Campus, Frankfurt / Main 1984, ISBN 978-3-593-33400-4
    • I Germanesi, storia e vita di una comunità calabrese e dei suoi emigranti . Translation into Italian. Pellegrini, Cosenza 1986
  • (Ed.): In questa terra altrove. Testi letterari di emigrati italiani in Germania . Pellegrini, Cosenza 1987
  • Il ballo tondo . Novel. Marietti, Genoa 1991
    • The dance . Translation of Giuseppe de Siati. Neuer Malik, Kiel 1993, ISBN 978-3-89029-072-0 (also: The wedding dance )
  • Dimore . Pellegrini, Cosenza 1992
  • Di noi . Pellegrini, Cosenza 1992
  • Il muro dei muri . Stories. Argo, Lecce 1993, ISBN 88-86211-08-2
    • Lisa and the near distance: stories . Translation by Meike Behrmann. Ed. Kappa, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-932000-37-9
  • Shtegtimi i unazës . Dukagjini, Pejë 1994.
  • Terre di andata . Poetry. Argo, Lecce 1996, ISBN 88-86211-71-6
  • La moto di Scanderbeg . Novel. Fazi, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-8112-097-6
  • Tra due mari . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-04-50062-X
  • La festa del ritorno . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-04-52759-5
  • The mosaico del tempo grande . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2006, ISBN 88-04-54470-8 .
  • Gli anni veloci . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-04-57362-3 .
  • Vivere per addizione e altri viaggi . Stories. Mondadori, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-04-58541-1 .
  • La collina del vento . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-88-04-60876-9
  • Il bacio del pane . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2013, ISBN 978-88-04-62927-6
  • La felicità dell'attesa . Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2015, ISBN 978-88-04-65803-0
  • I live according to the addition principle . Translation by Meike Behrmann. In: NZZ, January 27, 2018, p. 21
  • Le rughe del sorriso . Novel. Milan: Mondadori, 2018 ISBN 9788804702207

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personal data
SURNAME Abate, Carmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Carfizzi