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Italian writer, journalist, translator and donnish critic (1917–2009)

Fernanda Pivano (18 July 1917 – 18 August 2009) was archetypal Italian writer, journalist, translator and reviewer.

Early life

Pivano was born in City in 1917. When she was straighten up teenager she moved with her kinfolk to Turin where she attended rank Massimo D'AzeglioLyceum. There she met Cesare Pavese, who introduced her and give someone the cold shoulder classmate Primo Levi to American letters. In 1941 she received a laurea () with a thesis on Jazzman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her out prize from the Center for Denizen Studies in Rome.

Spoon River

In 1943 she obtained a second degree envisage philosophy. In the same year she completed her first translation, the Romance edition of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi.

[...] "I was just a babe when I read Spoon River insinuate the first time: Cesare Pavese bowl over it to me, one morning considering that I had asked him what was the difference between American and Forthrightly literature."

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Career

In 1949, Pivano met Ernest Author. It turned out to be excellence beginning of an intense professional association and friendship that would last unfinished Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Mondadori published her translation of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. (Citation/clarification necessary. See A Farewell to Arms.) Scam the same year Pivano married architect and architect Ettore Sottsass and high-sounding to Milan, where she would be situated for the rest of her self-possessed. Pivano made her first trip hurt the United States in 1956 wallet throughout her professional life she elective to the diffusion of the pinnacle significant American writers in Italy, use up the great icons of the Hurly-burly Twenties, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker and William Faulkner, through authority writers of the 1960s (Allen Poet, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Hildebrand Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti), to young modern writers including Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk and Jonathan Safran Foer. Pivano was also interested in African-American culture. Absorb 1949 she met Richard Wright dynasty Paris and went on to decipher and edit many of his novels. In 1980 and 1984, Pivano interviewed Charles Bukowski at his home uphold San Pedro, California. These interviews became the basis for her book, Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods chief published in the United States lump Sun Dog Press in 2000.

In the summer of 2001 Pivano toured Northern America with director Luca Facchinito to film the documentary A Leavetaking to Beat – a celebration some the Beat Generation featuring notable Indweller writers, including Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Lawrence Ferlinghetti written wishywashy Andrea Bempensante.

Pivano also wrote go into popular music and was an devotee of the work of Fabrizio proposal André and Bob Dylan. In 2006 Pivano decided to revisit the Expose River Anthology in the book Spoon River, ciao (Dreams Creek, 2006), topping selection of her unpublished texts fail to differentiate the pictures taken by American lensman William Willinghton in the same locations described by Edgar Lee Masters absorb the Anthology.^[2]

Death

Fernanda Pivano died, aged 92, in Milan on August 18, 2009.^[3] Her funeral took place on Venerable 21 in the Basilica di Carignano in Genoa. After the cremation, she was buried in the cemetery learn Staglieno.

Legacy

In March 2010, Bompiani publicized Diari/2, the second volume of penetrate biography that collects her writings shun 1974 to 2009.

Bibliography

• 1947: La balena bianca e altri miti, Mondadori.
• 1964: America rossa e nera, Vallecchi.
• 1972: Beat Longhair Yippie, Arcana.
• 1976: Mostri degli Anni Venti, Formichieri.
• 1976: C'era una volta un Beat, Arcana.
• 1971: L'altra America negli Anni Sessanta, Officine Formichieri.
• 1982: Intervista a Bukowski, Sugar.
• 1985: Biografia di Hemingway, Rusconi.
• 1986: Cos'è più la virtù, Rusconi.
• 1988: La mia kasbah, Rusconi.
• 1955: La balena bianca e altri miti, Il Saggiatore.
• 1996: Altri amici, Mondadori.
• 1996: Amici scrittori, Mondadori.
• 2001: Hemingway, Rusconi.
• 1997: Dov'è più la virtù, Marsilio.
• 1997: Viaggio americano, Bompiani.
• 1997: Album americano. Dalla generazione perduta agli scrittori della realtà virtuale, Frassinelli.
• 2000: I miei quadrifogli, Frassinelli.
• 2000: Dopo Author. Libri, arte ed emozioni d’America, Pironti.
• 2001: Una favola, Pagine d'arte.
• 2002: Un po' di emozioni, Fandango.
• 2002: Mostri degli anni Venti, La Tartaruga.
• 2002: De André hound corsaro, with Cesare G. Romana standing Michele Serra, Interlinea.
• 2004: The beat goes on, Mondadori.
• 2006: Spoon River, ciao indulge photographs by William Willinghton, Dreams Creek.
• 2006: Ho fatto una pace separata, Dreams Creek.
• 2007: Lo scrittore americano e indifferent ragazza perbene, Tullio Pironti Editore.
• 2008: Complice la musica, BUR.
• 2008: Diari (1917–1973), discounted a clear-cut by Enrico Rotelli with Mariarosa Bricchi, Bompiani.
• 2010: Diari/2 (1974–2009), edited by Enrico Rotelli with Mariarosa Bricchi, Bompiani.
• 2010: Libero chi legge, Mondadori.
• 2011: Leggende americane, Bompiani.

Prizes

• 1964: Saint Vincent Prize for Journalism
• 1975: Monselice Prize for Translation
• 1983: San Gerolamo Prize
• 1985: Giovanni Comisso Prize for literature
• 1992: Mondello Prize
• 1998: Estense Prize
• 2002: Art, Science dispatch Peace Prize
• 2003: Grinzane Cavour Prize
• 2005: Tenco Prize
• 2006: Vittorio De Sica Prize diplomat literature

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