- Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria (born 1922) is an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as "
Tre romanzi di una giornata ".Biography
La Capria was born in
Naples , where he was to spend the formative years of his life. There he graduated in law, before staying in France, England and the United States and then settling inRome . He contributed to the cultural pages of theCorriere della Sera and was co-director of the literary journalNuovi Argomenti . A particular interest was English poetry of the 1930s: as well as writing numerous articles he translated works includingT. S. Eliot ’s "Four Quartets ". In the 1950s he wrote and produced a number of radio programmes forRAI on foreign contemporary drama. In 1957 he was invited to participate in the International Seminar of Literature atHarvard University . In 1961 his novel "Ferito a morte" won the prestigiousPremio Strega .He worked as co-scriptwriter on a number of
Francesco Rosi ’s films including "Le mani sulla città " (1963), "Uomini contro " (1970) and "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli " (1979). In September 2001 he received aPremio Campiello lifetime achievement award and in 2005 "L'estro quotidiano" was selected as the winner of theViareggio Prize for fiction.Works
La Capria has published more than twenty books to date.
He published his first novel, "
Un giorno d'impazienza " in 1952. The second, and best-known novel, "Ferito a morte " came out nearly ten years later in 1961. In 1982 the three Neapolitan novels "Un giorno d'impazienza", "Ferito a morte" and "Amore e psiche " (1973) were re-isued as "Tre romanzi di una giornata".His short stories include "
La neve del Vesuvio " and the collection "Fiori giapponesi " (1979). His work as an essayist is represented by "False Partenze " (1964), "Il sentimento della letteratura " (1974) and "La mosca e la bottiglia " (1996). An autobiography, "Cinquant'anni di false partenze " was published in 1964.
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