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Gianni Celati

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Born: January 09 1937

Gianni Celati è uno scrittore, traduttore, critico letterario e documentarista italiano.

Born in 1937, he's an Italian writer, translator and critic.
Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, but spent his infancy and adolescence in the province of Ferrara. He graduated in English literature with a degree on James Joyce by the teacher Carlo Izzo of the University of Bologna, where he would later teach .

His first book, Comiche, was published in 1970 in the Giulio Einaudi's publishing company with an introduction by Italo Calvino, with whom he planned to found a literary magazine which never came to light. Another writer interested in the projects was Carlo Ginzburg. All the letters are preserved and published later by the magazine "Riga", no. 14 , which later dedicated the entire no. 28 to Celati.

His three novels Le avventure di Guizzardi , La banda dei sospiri , and Lunario del paradiso were later published together in Parlamenti buffi , with a leave-letter of the author to his own book, which marked his passage from Einaudi to the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's publishing company.

In 1985, he wrote the stories of Narratori delle pianure ; in 1987 Quattro novelle sulle apparenze; and in 1989 Verso la foce . The three books reaveal a new direction in the author's style, more serious and visual after the amusing and explosive wordy manner of the previous ones.

In 1994, he wrote L'Orlando innamorato raccontato in prosa, derived from the Orlando in Love of Matteo Maria Boiardo. In 1998, he collected his notes from African travelling in Avventure in Africa . This book was awarded with the Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction.

In 2000, Rebecca J. West dedicated her Gianni Celati: The Craft of Everyday Storytelling to his writings .

Other stories by Celati were collected in Cinema naturale . In 2005, he published the pseudo-anthropological study Fata Morgana . In 2006, he won the Viareggio Prize for his novel Vite di pascolanti and made the third James K. Binder Lectureship in Literature at the University of California in San Diego on "Fellini on the Italian Male".

Celati has translated works by Jonathan Swift, William Gerhardie, Herman Melville, Stendhal, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Mark Twain, Roland Barthes, Jack London, Henri Michaux, Georges Perec, and others.

He also directed a few documentaries, such as Strada Provinciale delle Anime , Il Mondo di Luigi Ghirri , Case Sparse , and Diol Kadd ; while starred in Mondonuovo by the director Davide Ferrario, a movie on Celati's childhood.

He lives in Brighton .

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Quattro novelle sulle apparenze

Con gli occhi chiusi / Ricordi di un impiegato

Lunario del paradiso

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La banda dei sospiri

Avventure in Africa

Cinema naturale

Finzioni occidentali

Conversazioni del vento volatore

Comiche

Vidas erráticas

Amore! Liebesgeschichten

Narrative in fuga

Hup! Sportieve verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur

Il richiamo della foresta

Er was eens een sprookje

Il profilo delle nuvole: Immagini di un paesaggio italiano

Parlamenti buffi

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Fata Morgana