The writer and translator Gianni Celati died

 Gianni Celati, writer, literary critic and translator, died. He was 84 and had lived in Brighton, England for a long time. Born in 1937 in Sondrio, graduated in Bologna with a thesis on Joyce, in 1971 he published his first novel, Comiche. Among his works, Narratori delle pianure (Cinque Scole and Grinzane-Cavour prize); Four short stories about appearances; the funny parliaments trilogy. He translated Bartleby the scribe of Melville, Stendhal's Certosa di Parma, Hölderlin's Poems of the Tower, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joyce's Ulysses. In 1998 Celati received the Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction from New York University. Among his works also Adventures in Africa, Western fictions, Towards the mouth, Fata Morgana, Sonnets of Badalucco in today's Italy and Selve d'amore.He has also dedicated himself to cinema and has made documentary films such as: Strada Provinciale delle anime, The world of Luigi Ghirri, Case sparse. Visions of collapsing houses.

    "With pain - comments the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini - I learn of the death of Gianni Celati, a great intellectual of the twentieth century, a never banal author, an extraordinary translator who has studied the Italian language and its sounds with mastery. sad for literature and for our country which loses even an attentive observer who has been able to describe the lesser known Italy, the Italy elsewhere, with simplicity. I cling to the family and friends of Gianni Celati ".

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