Fabio Stassi
Fabio Stassi (born May 2, 1962 ) in Sicily is an Italian writer .
Life
Fabio Stassi lives in Viterbo and works in Rome in the Biblioteca Federico Chabod in the Dipartimento di Storia moderna e contemporanea of the Sapienza . He writes most of his novels on the train on the way to work. So far he has published seven novels, two children's books, numerous short stories and essays. In 2007 he received the “Premio Vittorini” for the best novel debut for his first novel, Fumisteria ( The Fireplace , previously untranslated). In terms of content, Stassi likes to lean on historical acts or people: In The Trophy , the protagonist hunts behind the World Cup trophy disguised as a sports journalist and experiences and influences European history from the 1930s to the 1970s, similar to a Forrest Gump . The last game is about the Cuban chess grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca and the preparation for his fictional revenge on Alexander Alekhine . The praise for “a great portrait of Capablanca” contrasts in the criticism with ratings such as “slow and difficult. It is rarely as original and clever as it would like to be ”. Il libro dei personaggi letterari. Dal dopoguerra a oggi, da Lolita a Montalbano, da Gabriella a Harry Potter contains two hundred short portraits of the main and supporting characters in the best novels of the late twentieth century.
Fabio Stassi also writes for various Italian magazines, e.g. B. for Velvet and the Rolling Stone . He also writes song lyrics, especially for the Roman singer and composer Pilar Roman and the composer Franco Piana, who have already won several music awards with them.
Works
- Fumisteria (novel). 2006
- È finito il nostro Carnevale (novel). 2007; German translation by Monika Köpfer as The Trophy . Kein & Aber , Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5540-7
- La rivincita di Capablanca (novel). 2008; German translation by Monika Köpfer as The Last Part . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5535-3
- Holden, Lolita, Živago e gli altri. Piccola enciclopedia dei personaggi letterari (1946-1999) (novel). 2010
- Various authors, The man of my life , Kein & Aber , Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5564-3
- L'ultimo ballo di Charlot (novel). 2012. ISBN 978-8-8389-2764-5
- Come un respiro interrotto (novel). 2014. ISBN 978-8-8389-3141-3
- Il libro dei personaggi letterari. Dal dopoguerra a oggi, da Lolita a Montalbano, da Gabriella a Harry Potter (short portraits of literary characters). 2015. ISBN 978-8-8752-1685-6
- La lettrice scomparsa (novel). 2016. ISBN 978-8-8389-3523-7
- Angelica e le comete (novel). 2017. ISBN 978-8-8389-3660-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Fabio Stassi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author information from the Swiss publisher Kein & Aber
- Books by Fabio Stassi in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
- Standard entry in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
Individual evidence
- ^ Roman Bucheli in: NZZ , accessed on July 6, 2010
- ↑ Frauke Kaberka in: Die Berliner Literaturkritik , accessed on June 5, 2010
- ↑ FAZ.NET Feuilleton from January 29, 2009, accessed on June 5, 2010
- ↑ Angelica e le comete. Review (in German) at books reviews. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stassi, Fabio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sicily |