Antonio Tabucchi, born in Pisa on September 23, 1943, is an Italian writer and academic. He teaches Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... This page is about Siena, Italy. ...

Deeply in love with Portugal, he is an expert, critic and translator of the works of the writer Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronomouses. Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (pron. ...

Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He is so charmed that, back in Italy, he attended a course of Portuguese language for a better comprehension of the poet. The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Portuguese ( ▶ (help· info); IPA [] or Brazilian []) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde and other African and Asian nations. ...

His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries, including Japan. With María José de Lancastre, his wife, he translated into Italian many works by Pessoa, wrote a book of essays and a comedy about this great writer.

He has been awarded the French prize "Médicis étranger" for Nocturne indien (Notturno indiano) and the premio Campiello for Sostiene Pereira.

Biography (incomplete)

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa but grow up at his maternal grandparents home in Vecchiano, a village near that city. Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ...

During his years at university he set out on many journeys around Europe on the trail of the authors who met in the rich library of his maternal uncle. In one of these journeys to Paris, he found in a bookstall near the Gare de Lyon, signed by the name of Alvaro de Campos, one of the heteronomouses of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa the poem Tabacaria (tobacco shop), in the French translation of Pierre Hourcade. From the pages of this libel he extracted the intuition of his interest in his future life for at least twenty years. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Inside the gare de Lyon. ... Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (pron. ... Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (pron. ...

He went to Lisbon and developed a real passion towards the city of the fado and towards Portugal and consequently graduated in 1969 with a thesis on "Surrealism in Portugal". He specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in the seventies and in 1973 he was appointed as teacher of Portuguese Language and Literature in Bologna. District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Fado singer Débora Rodrigues performs in Lisbon Fado is a type of folk music which most likely originated in the 1820s in Portugal. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, also known in Italian as Scuola Normale (English: Normal High School College of Pisa or Normal School), is without a doubt the most selective higher learning institution in Italy. ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ...

In 1973 he wrote his first novel, Piazza d'Italia (Bompiani 1975), an attempt to describe history from the losers' point of view, in this case the Tuscan anarchists, in the tradition of great Italian writers of a more or less recent past, such as Giovanni Verga, Federico De Roberto, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Beppe Fenoglio, and contemporary authors, like Vincenzo Consolo. Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana. ... Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (born Palermo, December 23, 1896, died Rome, July 23, 1957), was Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. ... Beppe Fenoglio (born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922, Alba - 18 February 1963, Torino) was an Italian writer. ...

In 1978, he was appointed to the university of Genova, and published Il piccolo naviglio (Mondadori), followed by Il gioco del rovescio e altri racconti (Il Saggiatore) in 1981, and Donna di porto Pim (Sellerio 1983). His first important novel, Notturno indiano, was published in 1984, which was the basis of a 1989 a film directed by Alain Corneau. The protagonist is a man who tries to trace a friend who has disappeared in India, but he is actually looking for his own identity. Alternate uses, see Genoa (disambiguation). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... -1... Alain Corneau is a french movie director and writer. ...

In 1985 he published Piccoli equivoci senza importanza (Feltrinelli) and, in 1986, Il filo dell'orizzonte. In this novel, too, the protagonist, Spino, who tries to give a name to the corpse of an unknown is the typical character looking for himself. It is uncertain whether these characters succeed in this attempt, but during their life they are compelled to face their image mirrored by the others. A film was drawn from this book, too, in 1993 directed by the Portuguese Fernando Lopes. Fernão Lopez is reputed to have been a Portuguese prisoner, who on his return to Portugal in 1513, marooned himself on Saint Helena, an island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, thereby becoming its first permanent resident. ...

In 1987, year of publication of I volatili del Beato Angelico (Sellerio) and Pessoana Minima (Imprensa Nacional, Lisboa), he received in France the Prix Médicis, for the best foreign novel (Notturno indiano). In 1988 he wrote the comedy I dialoghi mancati (Feltrinelli). In 1989, the President of Portugal appointed him the Title Do Infante Dom Herique and in the same year he was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.

In 1990 he published Un baule pieno di gente. Scritti su Fernando Pessoa (Feltrinelli) and the next year, L'angelo nero (Feltrinelli 1991). In 1992 he wrote in Portuguese Requiem, a novel which was translated later into Italian (Feltrinelli, winner of Premio P.E.N. Club italiano) and he published Sogni di sogni (Sellerio).

1994 was a very important year in Antonio Tabucchi's life. It was the year of Gli ultimi tre giorni di Fernando Pessoa (Sellerio), but most importantly of the novel through which he became most known: Sostiene Pereira (Feltrinelli), winner of the Prizes Super Campiello, Scanno and Jean Monnet for the European Literature. The protagonist of this novel becomes the symbol of the defence of freedom for information for the political opponents of all anti-democratic regimes. In Italy, during the election campaign, the opposition against the controversial communication magnate Silvio Berlusconi aggregates around this book. The director Roberto Faenza draws from it the eponymous film (1995) in which he entrusts to Marcello Mastroianni Pereira's role and to Daniel Auteil doctor Cardoso's role. [[ Jean Monnet. ... ▶ (help· info) (born September 29, 1936) is the current Prime Minister of Italy. ... Marcello Mastroianni in 1958 Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor. ...

In 1997 he wrote the novel La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro, (The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro) based on the true story of a man whose corpse was found in a park. It was discovered that the man had been murdered in a police station of the Republican National Guard around Lisbon, a news story which struck the writer's sensitiveness and imagination. In order to finish this novel, Tabucchi worked on the documents gathered by the investigators who, at the European Council, in Strasburg, control the respect of human rights and the conditions of detention in Europe. That is to say, they control the relationship between citizens and agents within the police stations. The novel revealed prophetical when the murderer, Sergeant José dos Santos, eventually confessed the murder, for which he was convicted and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment. District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... The European Council, informally called the European summit, is a meeting of the heads of state or government of the European Union, and the President of the European Commission. ... Strasburg is the name of several places: Strasburg, Colorado (USA) divided between Adams County, Colorado and Arapahoe County, Colorado Strasburg, Illinois (USA) Strasburg, Michigan (USA) Strasburg, Missouri (USA) Strasburg, North Dakota (USA) Strasburg, Ohio (USA) Strasburg, Pennsylvania (USA) Strasburg, Virginia (USA) Strasbourg, Saskatchewan (Can) Strasburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany) the...

In 1997 he also wrote Marconi, se ben mi ricordo (Eri). The next year, L'Automobile, la Nostalgie et l'Infini (Seuil, Parigi 1998).

1998 was the year in which he received the Prize Nossack by the Leibniz Academy. In 1999 he wrote Gli Zingari e il Rinascimento (Sipiel) and Ena poukamiso gemato likedes (Una camicia piena di macchie. Conversazioni di A.T. con Anteos Chrysostomidis, Agra, Atene 1999). Doubts are like stains on a freshly laundered white shirt. The task of every writer and of every man of letters is to instil doubts for the perfection, because perfection generates ideologies, dictators and totalitarian ideas. Democracy is not a state of perfection.

In 2001 Tabucchi published Si sta facendo sempre più tardi, an epistolary novel . Seventeen letters which celebrate the triumph of word, which like "messages in the bottle", have no addressee, they are missives the author addressed to an "unknown poste restante". For this book he was awarded in 2002 the Prize France Culture (the French cultural radio) for foreign literature.

Lisbon is the city where he lives writing six months a year, together with his wife, who was born there, and with two children. He spends the rest of the year in Tuscany, and teaches Portuguese Literature at the University of Siena. In fact Tabucchi considers himself a writer only in an ontological sense, because from the existential point of view he is glad of being able to define himself a "university professor". Literature for Tabucchi is not a profession, "but something that involves desires, dreams and imagination". (Antonio Tabucchi, un dubitatore impegnato. Intervista di Asbel Lopez). District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... This page is about Siena, Italy. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, mainly novels, drama and poetry. ...

Antonio Tabucchi regularly contributes articles to the cultural pages of the newspapers « Corriere della Sera » and « País ». Corriere della Sera is the leading Italian daily newspaper printed in Milan. ...

Works

• Piazza d'Italia (prima edizione, Bompiani, 1975 - Feltrinelli, 1993)
• Il piccolo naviglio (Mondadori, 1978)
• Il gioco del rovescio e altri racconti (prima edizione, Il Saggiatore, 1981 - Feltrinelli, 1988)
• Donna di Porto Pim (Sellerio, 1983)
• Notturno indiano (Sellerio, 1984)
• Piccoli equivoci senza importanza (Feltrinelli, 1985)
• Il filo dell'orizzonte (Feltrinelli, 1986)
• I volatili del Beato Angelico (Sellerio, 1987)
• Pessoana mínima (Imprensa Nacional, Lisbona, 1987)
• I dialoghi mancati (Feltrinelli, 1988)
• Un baule pieno di gente. Scritti su Fernando Pessoa (Feltrinelli, 1990)
• L'angelo nero (Feltrinelli, 1991)
• Sogni di sogni (Sellerio, 1992)
• Requiem (Feltrinelli, 1992)
• Gli ultimi tre giorni di Fernando Pessoa (Sellerio, 1994)
• Sostiene Pereira. Una testimonianza (Feltrinelli, 1994)
• Dove va il romanzo (Omicron, 1995)
• Carlos Gumpert, Conversaciones con Antonio Tabucchi (Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, 1995)
• La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (Feltrinelli, 1997)
• Marconi, se ben mi ricordo (Edizioni Eri, 1997)
• L'Automobile, la Nostalgie et l'Infini (Seuil, Parigi, 1998)
• La gastrite di Platone (Sellerio, 1998)
• Gli Zingari e il Rinascimento (Feltrinelli, 1999)
• Ena poukamiso gemato likedes (Una camicia piena di macchie. Conversazioni di A.T. con Anteos Chrysostomidis, Agra, Atene, 1999)
• Si sta facendo sempre più tardi. Romanzo in forma di lettere (Feltrinelli, 2001)
• Autobiografie altrui. Poetiche a posteriori (Feltrinelli, 2003)
• Tristano muore. Una vita (Feltrinelli, 2004)

External links

• Interview with Tabucchi in 1999

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