Mauro Corona

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Mauro Corona (born August 9, 1950 in Baselga di Piné , Trentino ) is an Italian alpinist , sculptor and writer .

Mauro Corona

life and work

Corona was born the son of traveling merchants in Trentino . However, he has lived in Erto parish since early childhood , where his family has been based for generations. In his poverty-stricken youth in the Friulian Dolomites , Corona worked as a forest and mine worker. Besides mountaineering, wood carving has been one of his passions since childhood. In the 1970s, the sculptor Augusto Murer (1922–1985) discovered the autodidact and from then on supported him in developing this talent. His first exhibition took place in Longarone in 1975 .

He is one of the most famous wood sculptors in Italy.

As a mountaineer, he explored numerous routes in the Dolomites in the area of ​​the Piave .

Corona's first climbs took place at the Campanile di Val Montanaia.

Corona became known to a broad audience in Italy primarily as a writer. After a few short stories by him were published for the first time in 1997 in the regional daily newspaper Il Gazzettino , he increasingly turned to this activity. So far, 23 books have been published by him, mainly by Mondadori , some of them in several languages, including a. into Chinese. His literary work consists primarily of short stories that have a strong autobiographical character. In addition to his experiences in nature, the central themes are the previously very barren life in a small mountain village in Friuli , the social changes due to technical progress and the collective trauma caused by the Vajont catastrophe .

In 2011 he was awarded the Premio Bancarella literary prize , which had previously been awarded to Ernest Hemingway , Alex Haley and Umberto Eco , among others . In 2014 he received the Premio Mario Rigoni Stern literary prize .

Reviews

The literary scholar Claudio Magris says about Mauro Corona:

“Scrittore scarno e asciutto, e insieme magico nell'essenzialità con cui narra storie fiabesche e insieme di brusca, elementare realtà. I suoi racconti hanno l'autorità della favola, in cui il meraviglioso si impone con assoluta semplicità, con l'evidenza del quotidiano. In loro c'è comunione con la natura, col fluire nascosto e incessante della vita, e un'infinita, intrepida solitudine. "

“A sober and dry writer and at the same time magical in the way with which he tells his fairytale-like stories of at the same time bitter, elementary reality. His stories have the power of fairy tales, in which the miraculous imposes itself with complete self-evident and obvious everydayness. In them there is communion with nature, with the hidden and restless flow of life and an infinite, fearless solitude. "

- Claudio Magris, foreword to Il volo della martora (Italian Or. 1997)

"In the valley of the Vajont"

The book is about Severino Corona, or Zino for short, at the end of the 19th century, who grew up as an orphan boy in the Friuli mountains. He later opens a cheese dairy with Raggio, whose wife tries to seduce him. Zino poisons his friend, who doesn't die of belladonna, but goes mad.

“The stories ... in his novel 'Im Tal des Vajont' ... are exciting and touching. In their terrible drift, the figures of the mountains of Erto awaken compassion. "

"The track of the marten"

The book is about Corona's childhood before the disaster of Vajont , which also largely destroyed his hometown. He remembers the near-natural everyday occurrences, such as a marten who led a whole hunting party by the nose, but without glossing over, as Claudio Magris says in the foreword. At the end of the book, the village society changes through the money that comes with the construction of the dam or the state compensation after the disaster.

Works

Italian originals (selection)

  • Il volo della Martora. CDA & Vivalda Editori, 1997.
  • Le voci del bosco. Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine, 1998.
  • Nel legno e nella pietra. Ed. Mondadori, 2003.
  • Aspro e dolce. Ed. Mondadori, 2004.
  • History of the bosco antico. Ed. Mondadori, 2005.
  • L'ombra del bastone. Ed. Mondadori, 2005.
  • Vajont: quelli del dopo. Ed. Mondadori, 2006.
  • I fantasmi di pietra. Ed. Mondadori, 2006.
  • Cani, camosci, cuculi (e un corvo). Ed. Mondadori, 2008.
  • Storia di Neve. Ed. Mondadori, 2009.
  • La casa dei sette ponti. Feltrinelli, 2012.

Works in German translation

  • The voice of the forest. About tree secrets and living with nature. ( Le voci del bosco. Translated by Elisabeth Liebl). Munich, Riemann Verlag. ISBN 978-3-570-50017-0 .
  • The trail of the marten. From the original life and the lost time. ( Il Volo della Martora. Translated by Elisabeth Liebl). Munich, Riemann Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-570-50019-5 .
  • In the valley of the Vajont. ( L'ombra del bastone. Translated by Helmut Moysich). Munich, Graf Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-86220-024-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.de/Autor/Mauro_Corona/p113867.rhd  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.randomhouse.de  
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  3. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.de/Autor/Mauro_Corona/p113867.rhd  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.randomhouse.de  
  4. ^ A Mauro Corona il Premio Bancarella
  5. ↑ Premio Bancarella per Mauro Corona ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elle.it
  6. ↑ http://www.eselsohren.at/2012/04/20/corona-mauro-im-tal-des-vajont/
  7. ↑ http://www.sf-magazin.de/mauro-corona-im-tal-von-vajont,b4664.html
  8. ↑ Christina Höfferer, EX libris, April 22, 2012 http://www.graf-verlag.de/index.php/buch/book_id/18479
  9. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.de/ebook/Die-Spur-des-Marders-Vom-urspruenbaren-Leben-und-der-verloren-Zeit/Mauro-Corona/e107280.rhd?isbn=9783894806750  ( page no longer retrievable , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.randomhouse.de  
  10. ↑ La casa dei sette ponti. Review (in German) at books reviews. August 12, 2014, accessed May 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Corona, Mauro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian alpinist, sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Baselga di Pinè