Giovanni Arpino

Giovanni Arpino (born January 27, 1927 in Pula ( Istria ), † December 10, 1987 in Turin ) was an Italian writer and journalist .

life and work

The son of a Neapolitan father and a Piedmontese mother, Giovanni Arpino spent his childhood in several places in northern Italy, as his father Tommaso's career as an officer forced the family to move frequently. It was not until 1943 that the family found their final domicile in Bra , in the parent house of their mother Maddalena Berzia. In Bra, Arpino graduated from high school, before he devoted himself to law and then to literature.

In 1951 he completed his studies with a thesis on Sergei Alexandrowitsch Jessenin , while in 1952 he was able to inspire Elio Vittorini for his novel Sei stato felice, Giovanni , so that it was published by Einaudi . In 1953 he married Caterina Brero and moved with her to Turin , where he found a job with Einaudi and stayed until the end of his life.

In addition to his literary and publishing activities, he mainly worked as a sports journalist for La Stampa and Il Giornale . Together with Gianni Brera , he succeeded in improving the quality of sports reporting in Italy and giving it a literary level. With Azzurro tenebra (1977) Arpino even wrote a football novel , his most important work in this own genre.

Arpino's rather dry and ironic novels were honored with several prizes: in 1964 he received the Premio Strega for L'ombra delle colline , in 1972 the Premio Campiello for Randagio è l'eroe and in 1980 the Premio Super Campiello for Il fratello italiano . He also wrote numerous dramas, stories and poems for children ( Le mille e una Italia, among others). It is thanks to him that the Argentine writer Osvaldo Soriano became known in Italy.

After his death in 1987, Arpino Bra, the city of his youth, remained connected in a special way: there a cultural center and a children's literature award are dedicated to him in his honor.

Individual evidence

↑ Centro Culturale Polifunzionale “Giovanni Arpino”
↑ Premio “Giovanni Arpino” di letteratura per ragazzi ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

Works

Original editions

Sei stato felice, Giovanni (1952)
Il prezzo dell'oro (1957), book of poems
Gli anni del giudizio (1958)
La suora giovane (1959)
Un delitto d'onore (1960)
Una nuvola d'ira (1962)
L'ombra delle colline (1962), awarded the Premio Strega 1964
Un'anima persa (1966)
La babbuina (1967)
Il buio e il miele (1969)
Randagio è l'eroe (1972), awarded the Premio Campiello 1972
Racconti di vent'anni (1974)
L'assalto al treno ed altre storie (1974)
Rafé e Micropiede (1974)
Domingo il favoloso (1975)
Il primo quarto di luna (1976)
Azzurro tenebra (1977)
Il fratello italiano (1980), awarded the Premio SuperCampiello 1980
Le mille e una Italia (1980)
Un gran mare di gente (1981)
Bocce ferme (1982)
La sposa segreta (1983)
Il contadino Genè (1985)
Passo d'addio (1986)
La trappola amorosa (posthumous, 1988)
Serghej A. Esenin. L'estremo cantore dell'antica Russia di fronte alla rivoluzione . Venice: Marsilio, 1997
Opere scelte . Ed. Rolando Damiani. Milan: Mondadori, 2005

German translations

Out of hurt honor . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1964
In the shadow of the hills . Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1969
Bruno and Schräubchen . Zurich / Cologne: Benziger, 1973
An unequal pair . (Unabridged edition) Munich: König, 1973
Italy . Frankfurt / Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1988
The fragrance of women . Munich: Heyne, 1993

Film adaptations

For Renzo e Luciana , an episode from Boccaccio '70 (1962, based on Italo Calvino's story L'avventura di due sposi ), Arpino wrote the script together with Calvino, the director Mario Monicelli and Susi Cecchi D'Amico .

His novel Il buio e il miele is based on Dino Risi's film Profumo di donna (1974), in which Vittorio Gassman plays the captain Fausto Consolo and Agostina Belli plays Sara. Also Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman (1992) is based on this foundation.

Dino Risi filmed Un'anima persa in Anima persa in 1977 with Vittorio Gassman as Fabio Stolz and Catherine Deneuve as Sofia Stolz.

The documentary Un livre un jour (directed by Olivier Altman / Pierre Barboni), released in 1991, uses recordings in which Arpino plays himself.

literature

Veneziano, Gian Mario: Giovanni Arpino . Milan: Mursia, 1994

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Arpino, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pula (Croatia)
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1987
Place of death	Turin

[1] Centro Culturale Polifunzionale “Giovanni Arpino”

[2] Premio “Giovanni Arpino” di letteratura per ragazzi ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2