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Erri De Luca

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Born: May 19 1950

Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.

He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.

De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.

Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui . Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.

In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.

Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers , and magazines.

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Books from Erri De Luca

Il peso della farfalla

I pesci non chiudono gli occhi

Tu, mio

اليوم ما قبل السعادة

Montedidio

In nome della madre

Non ora, non qui

Il contrario di uno

Tre cavalli

Impossibile

La parola contraria

Il pannello

Η ιστορία της Ειρήνης

Il turno di notte lo fanno le stelle

L'ora X. Una storia di Lotta Continua

In alto a sinistra

L'evasione impossibile

Un papavero rosso all'occhiello senza coglierne il fiore

Come noi coi fantasmi: lettere sull'anno sessantottesimo del secolo tra due che erano giovani in tempo

A piedi, in bicicletta