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Fernanda Pivano

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Born: July 17 1917

Died: 1717 08 20092009

Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.

Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum. There she met Cesare Pavese, who introduced her and her classmate Primo Levi to American literature. In 1941 she received a laurea with a thesis on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her a prize from the Center for American Studies in Rome. In 1943 she obtained a second degree in philosophy. In the same year she completed her first translation, the Italian edition of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi.

In 1948, Pivano met Ernest Hemingway. It turned out to be the beginning of an intense professional relationship and friendship that would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Pivano married designer and architect Ettore Sottsass and moved to Milan, where she would live for the rest of her life. Pivano made her first trip to the United States in 1956 and throughout her professional life she contributed to the diffusion of the most significant American writers in Italy,

She is remembered to have had very intimate friendships with the writers popularised in Italy and with she work with as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan. Chuck Palahniuk and many others.
She also worked with various Italian beat writers, with LGBTQ+ activist Mario Mieli and with singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André.

She published many studies on American literature, two novels and two volumes of diaries.

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Books from Fernanda Pivano

Antologia di Spoon River

Il Grande Boh!

Il nuotatore e altri racconti

Libero chi legge

Viaggio americano

Poesia degli ultimi americani

En el camino, Los subterráneos y Los Vagabundos del Dharma

Blues, ballate e canzoni

Romanzi, Vol. 2

Leggende americane: Edgar Lee Masters, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, William Faulker

Beat & Pieces: A Complete Story of the Beat Generation in the Words of Fernanda Pivano with Photographs by Allen Ginsberg

Amici scrittori: quarant'anni di incontri e scoperte con gli autori americani

Mostri degli anni Venti

C'era una volta un beat. L'avventura degli anni '60

Diari, 1917-1973

Viaggi ad alta voce (1968-1979)

Sulla strada dei Magazzini Criminali

Il pasto nudo. Liberamente ispirato al romanzo di W. S. Burroughs

I miei amici cantautori

La mia kasbah