Tommaso Di Ciaula

Tommaso Di Ciaula (born September 27, 1941 in Adelfia ) is an Italian writer and journalist .

Life

Di Ciaula was born in 1941 near Bari in Apulia in southeast Italy . He worked as a lathe operator in a factory for 20 years before suddenly becoming known beyond Italy in 1978 with Tuta blu (German 1979 as The Factory Monkey and the Trees ). In 1970 a volume of poems by Di Ciaula was published. After Tuta blu followed in 1981 Prima l'amaro, dolce poi il. Amori e altri mestieri (German slightly changed in 1982 as The Bitter and the Sweet ). Of his other works, Acque sante, acque marce (1997) was published in German under the title Die Wasser Apuliens 2001.

Di Ciaula lives as a freelance writer, journalist and screenwriter near Bari.

Works in German

• The factory monkey and the trees. Anger, memories and dreams of an Apulian farmer who fell among the workers . From the Ital. by Wolfgang Sebastian Baur. Wagenbach, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8031-2051-9
• The bitter and the sweet. About love, scissors sharpening and other forgotten professions . From the Ital. by Werner Raith . Wagenbach, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-8031-2086-1
• The waters of Puglia. Roman , Ed. Kappa, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-932000-53-6

Participation

• Martin Thomas: Magical Apulia. With literary texts by Tommaso di Ciaula, Harenberg, Dortmund 1987, ISBN 3-88379-526-7 (illustrated book)

Web links

• Literature by and about Tommaso Di Ciaula in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tommaso Di Ciaula in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The factory monkey and the trees. From the Ital. by Wolfgang Sebastian Baur, Berlin, Edition Goiapui

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tommaso Di Ciaula at the Austrian Society for Literature (2001) ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2010 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.