Giulio Cisco

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Giulio Cisco ( 5. October 1921 in Rossano Veneto in the province of Vicenza - 23. November 1999 in Milan ) was an Italian journalist and writer .

Life

Cisco was founded in October 1921 in Rossano Veneto in Veneto son of a country doctor.

Professionally, he worked as a journalist for the Giornale di Venezia and Il Giorno in Milan ; as a writer, he also wrote radio plays and plays in addition to prose.

Cisco became known beyond Italy with his first, multiple award-winning novel La Patria riconoscente (1988; German 1992 as The Thanks of the Fatherland ). In this novel, Cisco traces the fate of all 19 children born in 1921 (the year he was born) in an Italian village - all boys - against the background of the rural culture of Veneto that no longer exists today, all of whom were killed in World War II and whose names adorn the village's war memorial .

Cisco died in Milan in November 1999.

Awards

Works

  • Otto di meno (1950)
  • Ragionamenti di donna (1950)
  • La gimcana (1951)
  • Un uomo tra i piedi (1960)
  • Vengo con te Cristina (1967)
  • La patria riconoscente (novel; Camunia editrice, Milano 1988)
    • dt .: The thanks of the fatherland. Novel; from Italy. by Ulrich Hartmann. Beck and Glückler, Freiburg / Breisgau 1992, ISBN 3-89470-408-X ; NA: Unionsverlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-293-20067-2
  • La contessina di Venezia (novel, 1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giulio Cisco portrait of the author (with photo) at Unionsverlag
  2. ↑ Giulio Cisco in the Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2006 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. (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bibliotecabertoliana.it
personal data
SURNAME Cisco, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossano Veneto , Vicenza Province
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1999
Place of death Milan