Fabio Stassi

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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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Bucheli in: NZZ , accessed on July 6, 2010
  2. Frauke Kaberka in: Die Berliner Literaturkritik , accessed on June 5, 2010
  3. FAZ.NET Feuilleton from January 29, 2009, accessed on June 5, 2010
  4. Angelica e le comete. Review (in German) at books reviews. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .