Italian writer and politician (1930–2020)
Nino Alberto Arbasino (22 January 1930 – 22 March 2020) was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.
Among the protagonists of Group 63, his literary production has ranged from novels (Fratelli d'Italia of 1963, rewritten in 1976 and 1993) to essay (for example Un Paese senza , 1980). He considered himself an expressionist writer, and he considered Super Eliogabalo his most surrealist and also his most expressionist book: "Especially for the descriptions of the places, which are always dreamlike and delusional".[ 1]
Biography
Arbasino was born in Voghera , southwestern Lombardy . He studied at the University of Milan where he graduated in law. Later he worked as a journalist for magazines such as Il Mondo and the newspaper La Repubblica . From 1983 to 1987, he was a deputy in the Italian Parliament for the Italian Republican Party .
His work includes novels and essays. Arbasino was a member of the Gruppo 63 .
He described himself as an expressionist writer and considered his novel Super Eliogabalo ("Super Elagabalus ", 1969) as his most surreal and most expressionist book.[ 2] He edited and rewrote his various works, which were reprinted in updated versions.[ 3]
Arbasino literary approach to homosexuality broke the Italian stereotype of the "guilty" gay character, particularly in his 1963 novel Fratelli d'Italia . Arbasino was openly gay in his personal life.[ 4]
In the 1970s he was the host of the TV debate show Match . In December 1977 it hosted a famous debate between directors Mario Monicelli and (the emerging) Nanni Moretti . Moretti said that Monicelli's An Average Little Man was a reactionary film.[ 5] [ 6]
In 2004 he won the Premio Chiara for his career.
Arbasino died on 22 March 2020, at the age of 90, after a long illness.[ 7]
Works
Le piccole vacanze , Einaudi, 1957 (first edition)
Le piccole vacanze , Einaudi, 1971, (ISBN 88-06-31658-3 ) (second edition)
Le piccole vacanze , Adelphi, 2007, (ISBN 978-88-459-2182-7 ) (third edition)
L'Anonimo lombardo , 1959, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-37002-2 )
Fratelli d'Italia , 1963, 1967, 1976, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-25106-6 )
Certi romanzi , 1964
Super Eliogabalo , 1969, 1978, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-10603-1 )
Certi romanzi – La Belle Epoque per le scuole , 1977, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-09563-3 )
La narcisata , 1975, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-42234-0 )
Il principe costante , 2 ed., 1972, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-34892-2 )
La bella di Lodi , 1972, Einaudi (ISBN 88-06-33183-3 )
In questo Stato , 1978, Garzanti Libri (ISBN 88-11-73946-2 )
Un paese senza , 1980, Garzanti Libri
Trans – Pacific Express , 1981, Garzanti Libri (ISBN 88-11-59908-3 )
Matine , 1983, Garzanti Libri (ISBN 88-11-59907-5 )
Il meraviglioso, anzi , 1985, Garzanti Libri (ISBN 88-11-59921-0 )
La caduta dei tiranni , 1990, Sellerio di Giorgianni (ISBN 88-389-0642-4 )
Un paese senza , 2 ed., 1990, Garzanti Libri (ISBN 88-11-67405-0 )
Fratelli d'Italia , réédition de 1993, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1000-8 )
Mekong , 1994, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1081-4 )
Specchio delle mie brame , 1995, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1127-6 )
Parigi o cara , 2 ed., 1996, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1177-2 )
Lettere da Londra , 1997, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1278-7 )
Passeggiando tra i draghi addormentati , 1997, Adelphi
Paesaggi italiani con zombi , 1998, Adelphi (ISBN 88-459-1404-6 )
Le muse a Los Angeles , 2000, Adelphi
Rap! , 2001, Feltrinelli
Dall'Ellade a Bisanzio , 2006, Adelphi
La Vita bassa , 2009, Adelphi
Honour
Italy : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (6 December 1995)[ 8]
References
Further reading
External links
Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): IX legislature.
Awards received by Alberto Arbasino
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Single Prize for Literature Special Jury Prize
Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta , Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey , José Donoso , Northrop Frye , Jorge Semprún , Wole Soyinka , Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum , Fan Boaci , Wang Huanbao , Shi Peide , Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong , Xiao Xue , Yu Yougqnan , Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First narrative work First poetic work Prize for foreign literature Prize for foreign poetry First work
Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri , Laura Mancinelli (1981)
Jolanda Insana (1982)
Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
Aldo Busi (1984)
Elisabetta Rasy , Dario Villa (1985)
Marco Lodoli , Angelo Mainardi (1986)
Marco Ceriani , Giovanni Giudice (1987)
Edoardo Albinati , Silvana La Spina (1988)
Andrea Canobbio , Romana Petri (1990)
Anna Cascella (1991)
Marco Caporali , Nelida Milani (1992)
Silvana Grasso , Giulio Mozzi (1993)
Ernesto Franco (1994)
Roberto Deidier (1995)
Giuseppe Quatriglio , Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
Alba Donati (1998)
Paolo Febbraro (1999)
Evelina Santangelo (2000)
Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
Giovanni Bergamini , Simona Corso (2003)
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
Francesco Fontana (2006)
Paolo Fallai (2007)
Luca Giachi (2008)
Carlo Carabba (2009)
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Foreign author Italian Author
Alberto Moravia (1982)
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati , Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini , Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri , Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
Andrea Camilleri (2002)
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
Maurizio Bettini , Giorgio Montefoschi , Nelo Risi (2004)
pr. Raffaele Nigro , sec. Maurizio Cucchi , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
pr. Paolo Di Stefano , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
pr. Mario Fortunato , sec. Toni Maraini , ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
pr. Andrea Bajani , sec. Antonio Scurati , ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
pr. Mario Desiati , sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
pr. Lorenzo Pavolini , sec. Roberto Cazzola , ter. (2010)
pr. Eugenio Baroncelli , sec. Milo De Angelis , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
pr. Edoardo Albinati , sec. Paolo Di Paolo , ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
pr. Andrea Canobbio , sec. Valerio Magrelli , ter. Walter Siti (2013)
pr. Irene Chias , sec. Giorgio Falco , ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
pr. Nicola Lagioia , sec. Letizia Muratori , ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
pr. Marcello Fois , sec. Emanuele Tonon , ter. Romana Petri (2016)
pr. Stefano Massini , sec. Alessandro Zaccuri , ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
"Five Continents" Award "Palermo bridge for Europe" Award Ignazio Buttitta Award Supermondello Special award of the President Poetry prize Translation Award Identity and dialectal literatures award Essays Prize Mondello for Multiculturality Award Mondello Youths Award "Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa Prize for Literary Criticism Award for best motivation Special award for travel literature Special Award 40 Years of Mondello
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