Luigi Santucci

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Luigi Santucci (born November 11, 1918 in Milan ; † May 23, 1999 ibid) was an Italian linguist and writer .

Life

After attending school at the Jesuit school Istituto Leone XIII , he studied language and literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore at the chair of Mario Apollonio and graduated in 1941 with a thesis on "Limiti e ragioni della letteratura infantile". He later accepted a professorship in linguistics at the University of Milan .

In the early 1950s he began his writing career and initially wrote humorous stories about the life of priests and monks , which also appeared in German translations such as Esel, Weinkrug und Sandalen (1956, original title "Lo zio prete", 1952) and Die Kelter of joy ("L 'imperfetta letizia", ​​1957), which was translated again in 1960 under the title Praise of Joy , as well as The child, its myth and fairy tale ("Letteratura infantile", 1964).

For Il velocifero ("The Strange Saints of No. 5", 1967) he was awarded the Premio Campiello in 1964, while Orfeo in Paradiso received the Super Campiello as best book of the year in 1967 and was made into a television film in 1971 .

In 1986 he was also honored with the Premio Grinzane Cavour for Il ballo della sposa .

In 1980, Esel, Weinkrug und Sandalen appeared in a new German translation under the title Red Wine and Gentle Hills . In addition, A grande richiesta was broadcast as a television series in 1981 .

In 2004 his autobiography , written in 1999, was published posthumously under the title Autoritratto: Luigi Santucci .

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Individual evidence

  • Meyer's large personal dictionary , Mannheim 1968, p. 1155
  1. ↑ Book review Il velocifero (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Santucci, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1999
Place of death Milan