Luigi Malerba

Luigi Malerba, also Luigi Bonardi, (born November 11, 1927 - May 8, 2008) was an Italian author of stories, historical novels and screenplays as well as a co-founder of the "Gruppo 63". Malerba won the Viareggio Prize in 1992. Catholicism and the difference between appearance and substance are his main topics.

He had an university degree in law. He resided in Rome and Orvieto.

Publications

tories and Novels

*La scoperta dell'alfabeto (Bompiani, 1963)
*Il serpente (1966)
*Salto mortale (Bompiani, 1968)
*Il protagonista (1973)
*Mozziconi (Einaudi, 1975)
*Storiette (Einaudi, 1977)
*Il pataffio (1978)
*Le galline pensierose (Einaudi, 1980)
*Diario di un sognatore (1981)
*Storiette tascabili (Einaudi, 1984)
*Il pianeta azzurro (1986)
*Testa d'argento (1988)
*Il fuoco greco, 1990 (set in the Byzantine Empire)
*Le pietre volanti (1992)
*Le maschere, 1994 (set around 1521)
*Itaca per sempre (1997)
*Pinocchio con gli stivali
*Città e dintorni. Essays (2001)
*Il circolo di Granada (2002)

Translations

English

Two of his books have been translated into English (as of July 2007.) Both were translated by William Weaver. Both are currently out of print.

*"Il Serpente" as "The Serpent"
*"Salto Mortale" as "What is This Buzzing? Do You hear It Too?"

German

* Die Schlange 1969
* Der Protagonist 1976
* Tagebuch eines Träumers 1984
* Die nachdenklichen Hühner 1984
* Taschenabenteuer 1985
* Salto mortale 1985
* Pataffio 1988
* Wahrhaftige Gespenster. Geschichten aus den eingebildeten Wissenschaften 1990
* König Ohneschuh
* Das griechische Feuer 1991
* Die fliegenden Steine
* Die Entdeckung des Alphabets 1993
* Die nackten Masken 1995
* Von dreien, die auszogen, sich den Bauch zu füllen (with Tonino Guerra) 1996
* Silberkopf 1997
* Närrische Welt. Von Lustgurkenfresserinnen und der Sehnsucht nach Metall 1998
* Elianes Glanz 2000
* Città e dintorni. Essays 2001
* Der gestiefelte Pinocchio 2001
* Der Traum als Kunstwerk 2002
* Der geheime Zirkel von Granada 2003

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