Italian writer
Achille Campanile
Achille Campanile
Born (1899-09-28 ) 28 September 1899Died 4 January 1977(1977-01-04) (aged 77) Alma mater Sapienza University of Rome Occupations Novelist playwright Intellectual Literary critic Spouses Maria Rosa Lisa
(
m. 1940;
div. 1943)
Giuseppina Bellavita
(
m. 1953)
Children 1 Parent(s) Gaetano Campanile Mancini and Clotilde Fiore Writing career Language Italian Genre Literary movement Futurism Novecento Italiano Notable works Se la luna mi porta fortuna Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco In campagna è un'altra cosa (c'è più gusto)
Achille Campanile (Italian pronunciation: [aˈkille kam.paˈni.le] ; 28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play .
Achille Campanile was born in Rome on 28 September 1899.[ 1] His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna . Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna , L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee .[ 1]
He became famous for his brief humorous dramatic pieces. In 1925 he published his first theatre work entitled L’inventore del cavallo which was a single-act play.[ 1] His Futurist plays, such as Centocinquanta la gallina canta (1925), characterized by a taste for word play and surrealist nonsense , won critical acclaim.
He had more popular success with novels such as Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1927). Both his novels and plays show a passion for nonsense and linguistic ambiguity, although his surreal humour often disguises a strong critique of bourgeois mores.
His Tragedie in due battute (Tragedies in Two Cues) have been rediscovered by the avant-garde of the sixties and the early seventies and are considered anticipations of Theatre of the Absurd .[ 3] Campanile was active in the post-war period as a television critic.
Achille Campanile, Giovinotti, non esageriamo! , 1929 Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1924) Se la luna mi porta fortuna (1927) Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco (1930) In campagna è un'altra cosa (1931) Cantilena all'angolo della strada (1933) Celestino e la famiglia Gentilissimi (1942) Il povero Piero (1959) Amiamoci in fretta (1962) L'inventore del cavallo e altre quindici commedie (1971) Manuale di conversazione (1973) Asparagi e immortalità dell'anima (1974) Vite degli uomini illustri (1975) L'eroe (1976) Tragedie in due battute (1978) Works available in English [ edit ]
Awards received by Achille Campanile
1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
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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