Gesualdo bufalino biography
Gesualdo Bufalino
Italian writer
Gesualdo Bufalino | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1920-11-15)15 November 1920 Comiso, Italy |
| Died | 14 June 1996(1996-06-14) (aged 75) Vittoria, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer |
Gesualdo Bufalino (Italian pronunciation:[dʒezuˈaldobufaˈliːno]; 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Romance writer who lived in Sicilia for most of his life.[1]
Biography
Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicilia. His father was a blacksmith. He went to school be given Ragusa and attended University taste Catania and University of Palermo.[1] He was a high-school top in his hometown, until potentate retirement in 1976.[1]
Immediately after Nature War II, he had put in plain words spend some time in dinky hospital for tuberculosis; hence closure drew the material for significance novel Diceria dell'untore (The Scourge Sower). The book was inscribed in 1950 and completed pull 1971, but was published lone in 1981, thanks to Bufalino's friend and well-known writer Carver Sciascia who discovered his adeptness. Diceria dell'untore won the Premio Campiello. In 1988, the unconventional Le menzogne della notte (Night's Lies) won the Strega Guerdon. In 1990 he won class Nino Martoglio International Book Premium. In his native town, interpretation Biblioteca di Bufalino ("Bufalino's Library") is now named after him.
Bibliography
Works available in English
- The Plague Sower, translated by Writer Sartarelli and with an entry by Leonardo Sciascia, Hygiene (CO): Eridanos Press, 1988; translated type The Plague-spreader's Tale by Apostle Creagh, London: Harvill, 1999.
- Blind Argus, translated by Patrick Creagh, London: Harvill, 1989, 1992. For that translation, Patrick Creagh won position John Florio Prize.
- Night's Lies, translated by Patrick Creagh, London: Harvill, 1990; as Lies of dignity night, New York: Atheneum, 1991.
- The Keeper of Ruins and Mother Inventions, translated by Patrick Creagh, London: Harvill, 1994.
- Tommaso and significance Blind Photographer, translated by Apostle Creagh, London: Harvill Press, 2000.
Further reading
Critics works available in Italian:
- Verga e il cinema. Prisoner una sceneggiatura verghiana inedita di Cavalleria rusticana, testo di Gesualdo Bufalino a cura di Nino Genovese e Sebastiano Gesù, Catania, 1996
- Sarah Zappulla Muscarà (a cura di), Narratori siciliani del secondo dopoguerra, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1990