biography
pronunciation:
[basahnee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–2000)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Bologna, N Italy. He contributed to various magazines, and in his work recreated Ferrara's Jewish society during the Fascist years and the horror of the persecutions. His first major success was Cinque storie ferraresi (1956, Five Stories of Ferrara), most of them composed in the aftermath of World War 2. A sensitive chronicler of Italian Jews and their suffering under Fascism, other major works include Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1962, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, filmed in 1971) and L'airone (1968, The Heron, Campiello Prize). The main themes of his work are the magic of childhood and the loneliness of the individual. His essays include Le parole preparate e altri scritti di letteratura (1966). |
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