Silvana Lattmann

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Silvana Lattmann (born November 8, 1918 in Naples ) is an Italian-speaking Swiss writer .

Life

Silvana Lattmann

Silvana Abruzzese Lattmann was born in Naples in 1918 as the daughter of the Neapolitan lawyer Alfonso Abruzzese and the Alba Scanferla. After the early death of the father, the family lived in Sanremo , Rome , Milan and Genoa . Silvana Abruzzese completed a biology degree in Rome and Genoa, which she completed with a doctorate in 1942. In the same year she married the marine engineer and naval lieutenant Michele Sgarlata, who died in the war in 1942 and whose son Massimo gave birth to her in 1943.

After the war, Silvana Abruzzese worked as an assistant and researcher at the Zoological Institute at the University of Milan and at the Marine Biological Station in Naples. In 1954 she married Charles Lattmann and settled in St. Gallen (Switzerland). She has been a writer in her native Italian language since the 1970s. Silvana Lattmann has lived in Zurich since 1993 .

Awards

  • 1984: Individual work award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation , for a professorship .
  • 1997: Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for Malâkut .

Works

  • Fifteen poems. In: Almanacco dello specchio. Mondadori, Milan 1978.
  • Le storie di Ariano. Nuove edizioni Vallecchi, Florence 1980.
  • Fessura. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1983.
  • Assolo per tromba in fa maggiore. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1985
  • Il Viaggio. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1987.
  • Quarta serata. Poetry - Bloc Notes 17. 1988
  • Su Rosa rosse rosa di Alida Airaghi. Bloc Notes, 1988.
  • La vecchia signora e il Brünig-Bahn Landi. Verkehrshaus, Lucerne 1989.
  • La favola del poeta, della principessa, della parola e del gerundio. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1989.
  • Malâkut. Edizioni Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan 1996.
  • Signa. Edizioni Florence Packaging, 1997.
  • Deianira. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 1998.
  • Tale un teatro per me. (With art print by Samuele Gabai.) Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, Osnago 1998.
  • Incontri. (With graphics by Alina Kalczynska and English translation by Sarah Thorne). Edizioni Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan 1998.
  • Since solstizio a equinozio. Interlinea Edizioni, Novara 2001.
  • Fuoco e memoria. Bertoncello 2002.
  • Greyish gray. Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, Osnago 2006.
  • Le storie di Ariano. Edizioni Josef Weiss, Mendrisio 2008.
  • Incustodite distance. Edizioni Interlinea, Novara 2008.
  • Brunngasse 8. Edizioni Interlinea, Novara 2010.
  • Quando il sud s'incontra armoniosamete con il nord. Leggerti N. 20.
  • La quadratura del cerchio. Edizioni Ulivo, Balerna 2014.
  • Vita e viaggi di JL Burckhardt. Un incontro con l'Islam dell'Ottocento. Con illustrazioni d'epoca . Edizioni Interlinea, Novara, 2016.
  • Nata il 1918 , Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lattmann, Silvana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abruzzese Lattmann, Silvana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples