“Feminism and Yiddish Literature: A Personal Approach”
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Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
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culture · Italian poet and translator (1901–1968) · poet · linguist · writer · translator · screenwriter · university teacher · journalist · literary critic · critic · librettist · also Salvatore Quasimodo, Quasimodo
Born 20 August 1901 · Died 14 June 1968 · Q83038
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“Feminism and Yiddish Literature: A Personal Approach”
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“Poetry at Women's Music Festivals: Oil and Water”
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Died 1968-06-14.
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And 1967 he received honoris causa degrees from the Universities of Messina and Oxford, respectively
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1959).
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Awarded Taormina prize (1953).
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Published another collection, Giorno dopo giorno ("Day After Day"), which made clear the increasing moral engagement and the epic tone of the social criticism of the author
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Joined the Italian Communist Party, but only remained a member for a short period
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Published Poesie, followed by the translations of Lirici Greci ("Greek Poets") published by Corrente di Vita in 1939
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Published with them a new collection, Oboe sommerso, including all his lyrics from 1930 to 1932
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Was transferred to Imperia and then to Genoa, where he got acquainted with Camillo Sbarbaro and other personalities of the Circoli magazine, with which Quasimodo started a fruitful collaboration
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Took a job with Italy's Civil Engineering Corps in Reggio Calabria
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Invited by Elio Vittorini, who had married Quasimodo's sister, he moved to Florence
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Moved to Rome to finish his engineering studies, but poor economic conditions forced him to find work as a technical draughtsman
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Graduated from the local Technical College
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Studied at Ist. Tec. Economico A.M. Jaci (1919).
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Quasimodo founded the short-lived Nuovo giornale letterario ("New Literary Journal"), in which he published his first poems
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His family moved to Messina, as his father had been sent there to help the local population struck by a devastating earthquake
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Born 1901-08-20.
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