Generation 1922, leading centenarians - Lifestyle

Generation 1922: that of great writers (Pasolini and Kerouac), great actors (Gassman and Tognazzi), some directors and then cartoonists and politicians and scientists. All born just 100 years ago, but mostly died prematurely, or not too old, still in time to bequeath their important contribution to the world.

    2022 will be an important year for the centenaries to be celebrated starting with those of writers who have marked the history of Italian literature and beyond. Let's talk, for example, of the author of Il partigiano Johnny, the partisan

(1 March-18 February 1963), who died of lung cancer at the age of 41. A dramatic fate also for another great writer, poet, essayist, one of the most lucid voices of his generation, such as

(5 March-2 November 1975).

(15 November-28 May 1990) was also a great but completely different theorist of the neo-avant-garde,

author among other things of illuminating volumes such as Hilatragoedia or Literature as a lie.

(March 12-October 21, 1969), the creator of On the road literature, On the Road, with the novels that made millions of epigones of the Beat Generation dream, was

    among the major American authors of his generation .

    The works of the same age

(11 November-11 April 2007), an American of German origin who dedicated himself and became famous with the science fiction of novels such as The Sirens of the Titans. Same year of birth for the Nobel Prize winner

(16 November-18 June 2010), Portuguese writer author of works strongly characterized as The Gospel according to Jesus Christ and Blindness. 1922 is also the year of birth of a great Italian poetess not to be forgotten like

(7 December-30 June 2014). There is also the creator of the Peanuts,

(26 November 1922 - 12 February 2000).

In the world of cinema we find first-rate local stars such as

(1 September-28 June 2000) and

(23 March-27 October 1990) or

(15 November 1922 -10 January 2015). But the centenarians also flock in the shadow of Hollywood as in the case of

(24 December-25 January 1990),

(3 April - 13 May 2019) or

(10 June-22 June 1969). Or even

(May 27-June 7, 2015). 1922 is also the year of birth of other greats such as

(24 April-15 May 2009);

(7 May-15 April 2010);

(25 May-11 June 1984);

(12 June-29 June 2013);

(2 July-29 December 2020) just to give some examples.

    (HANDLE).