Giovanni Bonalumi

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Giovanni Bonalumi (born April 5, 1920 in Muralto ; † January 8, 2002 in Locarno ) was a Swiss writer and literary historian from the canton of Ticino .

Life

Giovanni Bonalumi was born in Muralto in 1920 as the son of a railway official of Italian descent and a farmer's daughter. After the death of his father, he entered the boarding school of the episcopal seminary of Lugano at the age of eleven . He obtained his Matura at the college in Einsiedeln . From 1943 he studied literature at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and received his doctorate in French and Italian literature in 1947. After studying in Florence and London he taught from 1950 to 1973 at the teacher training college Locarno. From 1973 to 1990 he was also full professor for Italian literature at the University of Basel .

He also wrote several novels and stories, some of them autobiographical. He was awarded the Charles Veillon Prize for his novel Gli ostaggi (1954), which addressed his youthful experiences in the seminary. In addition to his literary works, he also published several literary writings. For his work as a translator of poems from English and French, he was awarded the 2001 Translation Prize by the Italian city of Monselice . In 1971 he was President of the Swiss Writers' Association. Bonalumi died in Locarno in 2002.

Works (selection)

  • Cultura e poesia di Campana. Vallecchi, Firenze 1953.
  • Parini e la satira; l'evoluzione del linguaggio pariniano e la satira. Cappelli, [Rocca San Casciano] 1958.
  • Introduzione all'Aminta. Cappelli, Rocca San Casciano 1958.
  • Gli ostaggi. Romanzo. Florence 1954, Bellinzona 1979/1986, Bergamo 1997. ( Les otages . Geneva 2002; Die Geiseln . Frauenfeld 2010)
  • La giovane Adula (1912-1920): saggio introduttivo e antologia dei testi più significativi. Elvetica, Chiasso 1970.
  • Per Luisa. Romanzo. Chiasso 1972, Bergamo 1995. ( Pour Louise , Geneva 2002)
  • Coincidenze. Bellinzona 1986.
  • Il pane fatto in casa: capitoli per una storia delle lettere nella Svizzera Italiana e altri saggi. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1988.
  • Il profilo dell'eremita e altri racconti. First edition: Florence 1996.
  • Album, quattordici poetry . Bellinzona 1990.
  • Cento anni di poesia nella Svizzera italiana. With Renato Martinoni; Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1997.
Translations
  • Album inglese. Quaderno di traduzioni (1948-1998). Bergamo 2000

Awards

  • Charles Veillon Prize (1954)
  • Festschrift: A Giovanni Bonalumi. Per il suo sessantesimo dal Seminario di romanistica di Basilea . Basel 1980
  • Translation Prize of the City of Monselice (2001)

literature

  • Ottavio Lurati, Renato Martinoni ( eds. ): Itinerari europei. Letteratura, lingua, società; per Giovanni Bonalumi (with catalog raisonné). Locarno 1991.
  • Renato Martinoni: Ricordo di Giovanni Bonalumi . In: Versants 41 (2002), pp. 205-206.
  • Danielle Benzonelli: From the clerical confines to the wide world of literature . In: Giovanni Bonalumi: The hostages . Frauenfeld 2010. ISBN 978-3-7193-1544-3 .
  • Antonio Stäuble: Giovanni Bonalumi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed January 19, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giovanni Bonalumi: Bibliography on worldcat.org/

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bonalumi, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Muralto
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2002
Place of death Locarno