Giuseppe Bonaviri

Giuseppe Bonaviri (born July 11, 1924 in Mineo , Sicily , † March 21, 2009 in Frosinone , Latium ) was an Italian writer .

life and work

Bonaviri was the first of five children of the Sicilian tailor Don Nanè and the housewife Giuseppina Casaccio. He studied medicine in Catania and from 1957 worked as a cardiologist in Frosinone near Rome . His literary works took place in his native Sicily ; Bonaviri published the first novel , Der Schneider von Mineo, in 1954 by Einaudi . He is said to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and even made it to the “finals” five times. He published a total of nine novels as well as countless volumes of poetry and stories. For The Blue Alley , in which he remembered his own youth, he received the Premio Elio Vittorini in Italy . Five of his 40 books have been translated into German so far.

Publications (excerpt)

• Mineo's tailor. A Sicilian story. With a foreword by Nino Erné . Übers. Sigrid Vagt, Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-596-29583-1 .
• Stones in the river. Translator: Gerda Lederer , ComMedia and Arte-Verl. Mayer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-924244-23-5 .
• The Camuti olive trees. Translated: Irmela Arnsperger, ComMedia & Arte-Verlag, Bretzfeld-Brettach 2000, ISBN 978-3-924244-40-8 .
• The blue alley. Translated by: Annette Kopetzki, CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3406542060 .
• Arlecchino 3rd ed .: Dagmar Reichardt , CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3924244361 .

literature

• Dagmar Reichardt: The fantastic Sicily Giuseppe Bonaviris. First-person narrator and spatial representation in his narrative work. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-36240-2 .
• Dagmar Reichardt: “The man from Mineo. A portrait of the writer Giuseppe Bonaviri ”, in: Zibaldone. Journal for Italian Contemporary Culture , No. 30, September 2000, Hamburg: Rotbuch Verlag, pp. 118–126.
• Dagmar Reichardt: "Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: Lange, Wolf-Dieter et al. (Ed.): KLRG - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Romance Literature , 22nd edition, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004, 16 pages (loose-leaf collection).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giuseppe-Bonaviri-Gesellschaft ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Giuseppe Bonaviri in the catalog of the German National Library