Ernesto Ferrero
Ernesto Ferrero | |
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Born | 6 May 1938 (1938-05-06) Turin, Italy |
Died | 31 October 2023 (2023-11-01) (aged 85) Turin, Italy |
Ernesto Ferrero ( 6 May 1938 – 31 October 2023) was an Italian writer, literary critic and translator.
Life and career
Born in Turin, in 1963 Ferrero started his career as a press officer for the Einaudi publishing house.[1] He made his literary debut with a dictionary of Italian slang (I gerghi del male dal ’400 a oggi, 1972),[1] which won the Viareggio Prize for First Work.[2]
Ferrero is best known for the novel N, a reconstruction of Napoleon's stay on Elba through the diary of his librarian; the book was translated in numerous foreign languages, won the Strega Prize and was freely adapted by Paolo Virzì into a film, Napoleon and Me.[1][2][3] His 2011 biographical novel about Emilio Salgari Disegnare il vento ("Drawing the Wind") won the Premio Selezione Campiello.[2] His last book was Album di famiglia ("Family album", 2022), a collection of intimate portraits of literary authors.[1][2]
Ferrero directed the Turin International Book Fair from 1998 to 2016.[1][2] He translated works of Gustave Flaubert, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Georges Perec.[4] He also wrote critical essays and collaborated with various newspapers and television programmes.[3] He died on 31 October 2023, at the age of 85.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Zaccuri, Alessandro (31 October 2023). "Editoria. Addio a Ernesto Ferrero, premio Strega e guida del Salone del Libro". Avvenire (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Minucci, Emanuela (31 October 2023). "È morto Ernesto Ferrero, il signore dei libri". La Stampa (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ a b Adejumo, Quadri (1 November 2023). "Ernesto Ferrero: Remembering Italy's Publishing Luminary". BNN Breaking. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ Minardi, Sabina (31 October 2023). "Addio Ernesto Ferrero, intellettuale che sapeva illuminare vita e letteratura". L'Espresso (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
External links
- Official website
- Ernesto Ferrero at Treccani
- Works by Ernesto Ferrero at Open Library
- Ernesto Ferrero at Radio Radicale
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- 1947 Ennio Flaiano
- 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli
- 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti
- 1950 Cesare Pavese
- 1951 Corrado Alvaro
- 1952 Alberto Moravia
- 1953 Massimo Bontempelli
- 1954 Mario Soldati
- 1955 Giovanni Comisso
- 1956 Giorgio Bassani
- 1957 Elsa Morante
- 1958 Dino Buzzati
- 1959 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- 1960 Carlo Cassola
- 1961 Raffaele La Capria
- 1962 Mario Tobino
- 1963 Natalia Ginzburg
- 1964 Giovanni Arpino
- 1965 Paolo Volponi
- 1966 Michele Prisco
- 1967 Anna Maria Ortese
- 1968 Alberto Bevilacqua
- 1969 Lalla Romano
- 1970 Guido Piovene
- 1971 Raffaello Brignetti
- 1972 Giuseppe Dessì
- 1973 Manlio Cancogni
- 1974 Guglielmo Petroni
- 1975 Tommaso Landolfi
- 1976 Fausta Cialente
- 1977 Fulvio Tomizza
- 1978 Ferdinando Camon
- 1979 Primo Levi
- 1980 Vittorio Gorresio
- 1981 Umberto Eco
- 1982 Goffredo Parise
- 1983 Mario Pomilio
- 1984 Pietro Citati
- 1985 Carlo Sgorlon
- 1986 Maria Bellonci
- 1987 Stanislao Nievo
- 1988 Gesualdo Bufalino
- 1989 Giuseppe Pontiggia
- 1990 Sebastiano Vassalli
- 1991 Paolo Volponi
- 1992 Vincenzo Consolo
- 1993 Domenico Rea
- 1994 Giorgio Montefoschi
- 1995 Mariateresa Di Lascia
- 1996 Alessandro Barbero
- 1997 Claudio Magris
- 1998 Enzo Siciliano
- 1999 Dacia Maraini
- 2000 Ernesto Ferrero
- 2001 Domenico Starnone
- 2002 Margaret Mazzantini
- 2003 Melania Gaia Mazzucco
- 2004 Ugo Riccarelli
- 2005 Maurizio Maggiani
- 2006 Sandro Veronesi
- 2007 Niccolò Ammaniti
- 2008 Paolo Giordano
- 2009 Tiziano Scarpa
- 2010 Antonio Pennacchi
- 2011 Edoardo Nesi
- 2012 Alessandro Piperno
- 2013 Walter Siti
- 2014 Francesco Piccolo
- 2015 Nicola Lagioia
- 2016 Edoardo Albinati
- 2017 Paolo Cognetti
- 2018 Helena Janeczek
- 2019 Antonio Scurati
- 2020 Sandro Veronesi
- 2021 Emanuele Trevi
- 2022 Mario Desiati