Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini

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Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (born February 23, 1910 in Pisino d'Istria (Mitterburg), Istria , Austria-Hungary , (today Pazin in Croatia ), † April 22, 1965 in Venice ) was an Italian journalist and writer.

Life

Quarantotti Gambini ("QG"), son of Giovanni Quarantotti and Fides Histriae Gambini, came from a family in Rovigno on his father's side , his maternal grandfather, Pierre Antonio Gambini, was the leader of the Italians in the state parliament of Istria and a member of the Imperial Council in Vienna in Parenzo . QG grew up in Capodistria . He received his first literary education there from Richard Hughes , who was in Istria in 1927. In 1929 he met Umberto Saba in Trieste . He studied law in Milan and began writing for the Turin daily La Stampa in 1933 . From 1935 onwards there were some difficult years for him, as his work was not accepted and he therefore had to work as a war correspondent in the Italian War in Ethiopia and then in the Spanish Civil War . He completed his law degree in Turin in 1937 . After that he had a contract with the shipping company "Italia" and wrote travel reports from the Levant and from two trips to North America.

During the Second World War he was in 1942 to translate the novel La Rosa rossa at the Goverts publishing house in Hamburg , but Henry Goverts was not particularly satisfied with the novel. During the time of the Italian Social Republic between 1943 and 1945, QG was the head of the Trieste city library . In 1945 he fled from the Yugoslav partisans Titos to Venice and was there until 1949 head of the secret radio station "Radio Venezia Giulia", with which the Italian population in the international zone of Trieste was to be informed from Italy. He himself advocated an independent Istria, but in 1954 the zones were separated in the London Agreement. The Yugoslavs did not allow him to return to the family seat in Koper. From the early 1950s he wrote for Il Messaggero and Il Tempo .

In 1948 he received the Premio letterario Bagutta for L'onda dell'incrociatore . In 1963 he had a place on the jury of the Premio Campiello literary prize . In 1998 the “Biblioteca comunale del popolo Quarantotti Gambini” in Trieste was named after him posthumously.

Fonts

  • I Nostri simili , Solaria, Firenze 1932
  • La Rosa rossa , Treves, Milano 1937
    • The red rose , from d. Ital. transfer v. Lotte Birnbaum, Hamburg: Goverts Verl. 1943
  • L'onda dell'incrociatore , Einaudi, Torino 1947; Les régates de San Francisco in the Internet Movie Database (English) (1960), directed by Claude Autant-Lara
    • Child's play: Roman , From the Ital. by Verena von Koskull , Hamburg: Marebuch-Verl. 2002
    • Harbor ballad: Roman , from d. Italy. transfer by Arianna Giachi, Munich: Langen / Müller 1962
  • Primavera a Trieste , Mondadori, Milano 1951
  • Amor militare , Mondadori, Milano 1955
  • Il Cavallo Tripoli , Mondadori, Milano 1956
  • La Calda vita , Mondadori, Milan 1958; La calda vita in the Internet Movie Database (English), directed by Florestano Vancini
    • Heisse Jugend , Aus d. Italy. transfer from Herberth u. Marly Herlitschka, Munich; Vienna: Langen / Müller 1963
  • Sotto il cielo di Russia , Mondadori, Milano 1963
  • I giochi di Norma , Einaudi, Torino 1964
  • L'amore di Lupo , Einaudi, Torino 1964
  • Luce di Trieste , Eri, Torino 1964
  • Racconto d'amore , Mondadori, Milano 1965
  • Il vecchio e il giovane , Mondadori, Milano 1965
  • La corsa di Falco , Einaudi, Torino 1966
  • Le redini bianche , Einaudi, Torino 1967
  • I Nobili di Rovigno e delle altre città istriane, diritti e privilegi. Disputazione di storia patria per le Venezie , Venezia 1968
  • Al sole e al vento , Edizioni Einaudi 1971

literature

  • Riccardo Scrivano: PA Quarantotti Gambini , Firenze: La nuova Italia, 1976
  • Pierre Barucco, Les Yeux Interdits'. Etude Psychocritique De L'Oeuvre De Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini , Lille 1982. Dissertation Univ. Paris III 1978.
  • Paolo Blasi: La poesia di PA Quarantotti Gambini e dei Capodistriani dell'esodo , Trieste: Italo Svevo, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note Biografiche , in: Riccardo Scrivano: PA Quarantotti Gambini , pp. 128–132, there also autobiographical notes from: Le redini bianche
  2. ^ Anne M. Wallrath-Janssen: The publishing house H. Goverts in the Third Reich. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-24904-4 , p. 302.
  3. ^ Veit Heinichen : Childhood by the Sea. The initiation novel by the Trieste author Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini is a work of timeless modernity . In: The time . No. 51/2002 ( zeit.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Quarantotti Gambini, Pier Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Pazin
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1965
Place of death Venice