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Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbo…
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culture · Italian writer and academic (1943–2012) · journalist · translator · writer · university teacher · philologist · screenwriter · also Antonio Tabucchi, Antonino Tabucchi, Tabucchi
Born 24 September 1943 · Died 25 March 2012 · Q231781
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2012· 4 entries
“Per conoscere un luogo non è sempre necessario esserci stati.”
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“La smetta di frequentare il passato, cerchi di frequentare il futuro.”
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“O ponto de encontro entre a criação artística e a vida vivida talvez esteja naquele espaço privilegiado que é o sonho.”
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2007).
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Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Francisco Cerecedo Prize (2004).
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Was awarded the Francisco de Cerecedo journalism prize, granted by the Association of European Journalists and bestowed by Spain's then heir to the throne, Felipe, Prince of Asturias, now King Felipe VI, in recognitio
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2001· 1 entry
Tabucchi published the epistolary novel, Si sta facendo sempre più tardi (English translation, 2006: It's Getting Later All the Time)
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1997).
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Tabucchi wrote Marconi, se ben mi ricordo, followed the next year by L'Automobile, la Nostalgie et l'Infini (1998)
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“Automobile, la Nostalgie et l”
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Tabucchi wrote the novel The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro) based on the true story of a man whose headless corpse was found in a park
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Viareggio Prize (1994).
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Awarded Premio Campiello (1994).
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Released Gli ultimi tre giorni di Fernando Pessoa, as well as the novel that brought him the most recognition: Sostiene Pereira, winner of the Prizes Super Campiello, Scanno and Jean Monnet for European Literature
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1993· 1 entry
Directed by the Portuguese Fernando Lopes
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1991· 1 entry
Wrote in Portuguese Requiem: A Hallucination, a novel later translated into Italian (winner of Premio P
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1989· 2 entries
The French government named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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And that same year the French government named him a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Médicis étranger (1987).
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When I volatili del Beato Angelico and Pessoana Minima were published, he received France's Prix Médicis for best foreign novel (Notturno indiano)
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1985· 1 entry
And, the next year, Il filo dell'orizzonte
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1984· 1 entry
And became the basis of a 1989 film directed by Alain Corneau
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1978· 1 entry
Was appointed to the University of Genoa, and published Il piccolo naviglio, followed by Il gioco del rovescio e altri racconti in 1981, and Donna di porto Pim (1983)
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1973· 1 entry
Was appointed as a teacher of Portuguese Language and Literature in Bologna
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1969· 1 entry
With a thesis on "Surrealism in Portugal"
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-09-24.
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