(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 03 - Gianni Celati, writer, literary critic and translator, has died. He was 84 and had lived for a long time in Brighton, England. Born in 1937 in Sondrio, graduated in Bologna with a thesis on Joyce, in 1971 he published his first novel, Comiche. Among his works, Narrators of the plains (Cinque Scole and Grinzane-Cavour award); Four short stories about appearances; the trilogy Funny Parliaments. 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 ItalianFiction from New York University. Among his works also Adventures in Africa, Western Fiction, Towards the mouth, Fata Morgana, Sonnets of Badaluccon 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, DarioFranceschini - I learn of the death of Gianni Celati, a great intellectual of the twentieth century, a never banal author, an ordinary translator who has masterfully studied the Italian language and its sounds. It is a sad day for literature and for our country that also loses an attentive observer who has been able to tell with simplicity the known Italy, Italy elsewhere. I cling to the family and friends of Gianni Celati ".
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