Claudio Magris, Warsaw (Poland), March 9, 2005.

Claudio Magris (b. April 10, 1939, Trieste) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. Image File history File linksMetadata Claudio_Magris. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Claudio_Magris. ... is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Trieste (disambiguation). ...

Magris graduated at the University of Turin, where he studied Germanistics, and has been professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Trieste since 1978. The University of Turin (Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO) is the university of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. ... It has been suggested that German studies be merged into this article or section. ... The University of Trieste (Università degli Studi di Trieste), relatively young Institution (80 years old) compared to other Italian Universities, is a medium-sized university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. ...

He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and for other European journals and newspapers. An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Corriere della Sera (Evening Mail) is the most important Italian daily newspapers (first in sales [1]), printed in Milan. ...

His numerous studies have helped to promote an awareness in Italy of Central-European culture and of the literature of the Habsburg myth. Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ...

Magris is a member of several European academies and served as senator in the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996. A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... Palazzo Madama house of the Senate of the Republic. ...

His first book on the Habsburg myth in modern Austrian literature rediscovered central European literature. His journalistic writings have been collected in Dietro le parole ("Behind Words", 1978) and Itaca e oltre ("Ithaca and Beyond", 1982). He has written essays on E.T.A. Hoffmann, Henrik Ibsen, Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges. His novels and theatre productions, many translated into several languages, include Illazioni su una sciabola (1984; translated as Inferences from a sabre, ISBN 0-7486-6036-4), Danubio (1986; translated as Danube: a sentimental journey from the source to the Black Sea, ISBN 0-00-272074-4), Stadelmann (1988), Un altro mare (1991; translated as A different sea, ISBN 0-00-271339-X) and Microcosmi (1997; translated as Microcosms, ISBN 1-86046-618-4). ETA Hoffman Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 - June 25, 1822), was a German romantic and fantasy author and composer. ... Ibsen redirects here. ... Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories, who converted to Roman Catholicism after marrying Livia Veneziani. ... Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. ... Hermann Hesse (pronounced ) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. ... Borges redirects here. ...

His breakthrough was Danubio (1986), which is a magnum opus. In this book (said by the author to be an "drowned novel"), Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea. The whole trip evolves into a colourful, rich canvas of the multicultural European history. This article is about the Danube River. ...

Magris won the Bagutta Prize in 1987 for Danubio and the Strega Prize in 1997 for Microcosmi. He was also awarded the Erasmus Prize 2001 and a Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2004. On 31 July 2006 Austria awarded its annual state prize for European literature to Magris. The Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize. ... Amici della Domenica The Strega Prize (Premio Strega) has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction by an Italian author and first published between 1 May of the previous year and 30 April. ... The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch non-profit organization, to individuals or institutions that have made notable contributions to European culture, society, or social science. ... The Prince of Asturias Awards (Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias, Asturian: Premios Príncipe dAsturies) is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals, entities, organizations or others from around the world who make notable achievements in the... is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...