Edoardo Albinati

Edoardo Albinati, 2018

Edoardo Albinati (born October 11, 1956 in Rome ) is an Italian writer.

Life

Edoardo Albinati grew up in Rome in the Trieste quarter and attended the high school San Leone Magno and in the final school year the state high school Giulio Cesare. Albinati edited film scripts, translated literature from English and worked as an editor for the literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti . In 1988 he published his first volume of short stories, Arabeschi della vita morale . His novel Il polacco lavatore di vetri , published in 1989, was filmed in 1998 by Peter Del Monte . Since 1994 he has been working as a teacher in the prison in the Roman district of Rebibbia .

From 2002 to 2004 Albinati was a member of a mission of the UN Refugee Commissioner in Afghanistan and in 2004 in the same function in Chad . His reports appeared in the Corriere della Sera and in La Repubblica .

Albinati won the Premio Viareggio in 2004 for the novel Svenimenti . The novel Tuttalpiù muoio , written in 2006 together with the actor Filippo Timi , was also published by Timi as a stage work.

In 2015 he wrote the screenplay for the fantasy film Il racconto dei racconti with the film director Matteo Garrone . He wrote the screenplay for Fai at sogni for Marco Bellocchio .

In 2016, Albinati received the "most important Italian literary prize" Premio Strega for the novel The Catholic School . With 1294 pages, the unusually extensive novel contains everything from sociological considerations to aphorisms, psychograms , essays and philosophical statements. According to reviewer Maike Albath, it shines in terms of language and style and is translated just as brilliantly; the translation was awarded the 2020 German-Italian Translator Prize. In terms of content, the novel takes a crime that actually happened in 1975 by three of the author's classmates as the starting point for putting a moral image of Italian society in the 1970s on paper.

Awards

• 2004: Premio Viareggio for the novel Svenimenti
• 2012: Premio Mondello for Vita e morte di un ingegnere
• 2016: Premio Strega for La scuola cattolica

Works (selection)

Novels

• Il polacco lavatore di vetri . Longanesi, Milan 1989, ISBN 88-304-0882-4 .
• Svenimenti . Einaudi, Turin 2004, ISBN 88-06-17130-5 .
• with Filippo Timi : Tuttalpiú muoio . Fandango, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-6044-009-2 .
• La scuola cattolica . Rizzoli, Milan 2016, ISBN 978-88-17-08683-7 .
  • The Catholic School. Translation of Verena von Koskull . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8270-1359-0 .
• Un adulterio . Rizzoli, Milan 2017.
  • An adultery . Translation of Verena von Koskull . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 9783827014078 .

Short stories

• Arabeschi della vita morale . Longanesi, Milan 1988, ISBN 88-304-0775-5 .
• Orti di guerra . Fazi Rome, 1997 ISBN 88-8112-048-8 .
• 19 . Mondadori, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-04-49841-2 .
• Voci nel buio . Charter, Rome 2005, ISBN 88-8158-582-0 .
• Guerra alla tristezza! Fandango, Rome 2009 ISBN 978-88-6044-126-3 .

prose

• Maggio selvaggio . Mondadori, Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-45806-2 .
• Il ritorno. Diario di una missione in Afghanistan . Mondadori, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-04-51419-1 .
• Vita e morte di un ingegnere . Mondadori, Milan 2012 ISBN 978-88-04-61468-5 .

Poems

• Elegy e proverbi . Mondadori, Milan 1989 ISBN 88-04-32436-8 .
• La comunione dei beni . Giunti, Florence 1995, ISBN 88-09-20604-5 .
• with Paolo Del Colle : Mare o monti . L'obliquo / AAM Architettura Arte Moderna, Brescia 1997.
• Sintassi italiana . Poems. Guanda, Parma 2002, ISBN 88-8246-295-1 .

Essays

• Oro colato. Otto lezioni sulla materia della scrittura . Fandango, 2014, ISBN 978-88-6044-444-8 .

Scripts

• Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele . Directed by Jon Jost , 1994
• Il racconto dei racconti . Directed by Matteo Garrone, 2015
• Fai at sogni . Directed by Marco Bellocchio, 2016

literature

• Maike Albath : Weak sex . Interview, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2018, p. 18.
• Maike Albath: "The Catholic School": The man as an incurable disease. In: Die Zeit 48/2018. November 22, 2018 (review). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Edoardo Albinati in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Edoardo Albinati in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Edoardo Albinati at perlentaucher.de
• Edoardo Albinati in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Edoardo Albinati , at Rizzoli
• Edoardo Albinati , at Andrea temporelli, blog, May 25, 2016

supporting documents

1. ↑ Edoardo Albinati in conversation: "Violence is part of the bourgeois mentality" , FAZ online, published and accessed May 1, 2019
2. ↑ Maike Albath: Edoardo Albinati: "The Catholic School" - "The Brutality of the Young Men 's World" , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from November 2, 2018, accessed May 1, 2019