Davide Longo

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Davide Longo (* 1971 in Carmagnola near Turin , Italy ) is an Italian writer .

Life

As a young man, Longo worked as a waiter, farm worker, lifeguard and decorator while studying literature at the Turin School of Literature Scuola Holden . He also played semi-professional basketball , which is still one of his hobbies today (2012). In 2001 he published his first book Un mattino a Irgalem , the plot of which is set in the 1936 Abyssinian War .

Longo teaches at the Scuola Holden literature school and in a small town in the Roero hills . He lives in Turin.

Honors and awards (selection)

  • Scholarship for the Scuola Holden University of Turin
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour 2002 for Un mattino a Irgalem
  • Premio Via Po for the best first work for the same novel
  • Mentioned as an author at the Scritture Giovani 2002.

Publications

  • Il caso Bramard , Feltrinelli Editore, Milan 2014.
  • Last man standing. 2012
  • Il signor Mario, Bach ei settanta. Passi editori, Milan 2011.
  • Ballata di un amore italiano. Feltrinelli, Milan 2011.
  • L'uomo verticale . Fandango libri, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-6044-137-9 .
    • German: The upright man. Translated from the Italian by Barbara Kleiner. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-03935-6 .
  • with Chiara Carrer: Pirulin senza parole. Children's book. Corraini, Milan 2008.
  • Stories La vita a un tratto. Storia di Pietro. Corraini, Milan 2006.
  • Il mangiatore di pietre. Fandango libri, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-7168-416-8 .
  • Un mattino a Irgalem. Marcos y Marcos, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-7168-322-6 .
  • Riga di sax (Le schegge d'oro). Poems. 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The landscape becomes a shelter. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 14, 2012, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Longo, Davide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Carmagnola (Piedmont) , Italy