Romano Bilenchi
Romano Bilenchi (* 9. November 1909 in Colle di Val d'Elsa , Siena , † 18th November 1989 in Florence ) was an Italian journalist and writer , of both the Viareggio Prize and with the Feltrinelli Prize awarded has been.
Life
Bilenchi initially worked as a journalist and, alongside Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli , Romano Cesare Luporini and Marta Chiesi, co-founded the magazine Società . In the 1930s he was one of the guests at the famous literary café Le Giubbe Rosse in Florence, where he made contacts with some of the most prominent poets and intellectuals of the time, such as Carlo Bo , Antonio Delfini , Carlo Emilio Gadda , Tommaso Landolfi , Mario Luzi and Eugenio Montale .
When there was a literary controversy in Italian neorealism in the early 1930s , he was, alongside Carlo Bernari and Cesare Pavese, one of those who considered the style of Vincenzo Cardarelli , Emilio Cecchi , Ardengo Soffici and Giuseppe Prezzolini to be self-referential and too formal ( contenutismo versus formalismo ). attacked.
When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, he and his friends Elio Vittorini and Vasco Pratolini planned to participate in the war in support of the Republican opponents of Franco .
During his writing career he wrote numerous novels and short stories , some of which were autobiographical , such as The Impossible Years , in which he described his life between 1909 and 1925. In 1972 he received the Premio Viareggio for Il bottone di Stalingrado . In addition, he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in 1982 .
His best-known publications, some of which were also published posthumously in German translation , include:
- Trio , short stories, 1964
- The impossible years. A family story from Tuscany , ISBN 3-8031-0173-5 , 1990 (original title Gli anni impossibili )
- Anna and Bruno , short stories, ISBN 3-8031-3103-0 , 1991 (original title Anna e Bruno , 1938)
- My cousin Andrea: Stories from Tuscany , anthology , ISBN 3-8031-2353-4 , 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Romano Bilenchi in the catalog of the German National Library
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- Fischer Weltalmanach 1991 , Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-19091-6 , column 1099
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Ulrich Döge: Pro- and anti-fascist neorealism. International reception history, literary references and production history of La nave bianca and Roma città aperta , the early films by Roberto Rossellini and Francesco De Robertis , dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bilenchi, Romano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colle di Val d'Elsa , Province of Siena |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1989 |
| Place of death | Florence |