Il Fatto Quotidiano: Giorgio Bassani o dell’artista che voleva essere uomo. Al Biografilm 2026 il vibrante documentario sulla vita del romanziere antifascista, autore di Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
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Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.
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culture · Italian writer · poet · screenwriter · writer · literary editor · journalist · politician · opinion journalist · also Giorgio Bassani, Bassani
Born 4 March 1916 · Died 13 April 2000 · Q318309
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
RSI: Giorgio Bassani, la memoria di un mondo sepolto
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2018· 3 entries
Quotidiano.Net: Giorgio Bassani e Il giardino dei Finzi Contini. Chi è l'autore della Maturità 2018
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Il Messaggero: Giorgio Bassani e il Giardino dei Finzi Contini, chi è l'autore scelto per l'Analisi del Testo della Maturità 2018
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Corriere della Sera: Giorgio Bassani alla Maturità con il «Giardino dei Finzi-Contini»: amici e nemici dello scrittore ferrarese
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2017· 1 entry
Fanpage.it: Ritrovato il manoscritto inedito di Giorgio Bassani: dopo 40 anni ecco le nuove poesie
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2016· 2 entries
Corriere della Sera: Giorgio Bassani, mio papà Simpatico ma anche un diavolo
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Repubblica: "Giorgio Bassani: il mio amico poeta e i nostri dialoghi con la racchetta"
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2000· 2 entries
Died 2000-04-13.
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And was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Ferrara, the same place where he located the graves of the family Finzi-Contini
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1992).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Bagutta Prize (1983).
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Premio Campiello (1969).
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Awarded Nelly Sachs Prize (1969).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Viareggio Prize (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
One of his short stories (Una notte del '43, from Cinque storie ferraresi) was adapted as the film Long Night in 1943
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1958· 2 entries
Bassani's novel Gli occhiali d'oro (made into a film in 1987) was published, an examination, in part, of the marginalisation of Jews and homosexuals
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Of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo, a novel which had been rejected by Elio Vittorini at Mondadori, and Einaudi
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Strega Prize (1956).
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With the publication of the Premio Strega-winning book of short stories, Cinque storie ferraresi (the five stories are Lida Mantovani, La passeggiata prima di cena, Una lapide in via Mazzini, Gli ultimi anni di Clelia Tr
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1953· 1 entry
La passeggiata prima di cena appeared and in 1954, Gli ultimi anni di Clelia Trotti
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1940· 1 entry
His first book, Una città di pianura ("A City of the Plain"), was published under the pseudonym "Giacomo Marchi" in order to evade the race laws
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1939· 1 entry
However, work opportunities were now limited, and he became a schoolteacher in the Jewish School of Ferrara in via Vignatagliata
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1938· 1 entry
Was able to graduate in 1939, writing a thesis on the nineteenth-century writer, journalist, radical and lexicographer Niccolò Tommaseo
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1935· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna
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1934· 1 entry
Completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-03-04.
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