- Mario Rigoni Stern
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Mario Rigoni Stern Born November 1, 1921
Asiago, ItalyDied June 16, 2008 (aged 86)
Asiago, ItalyOccupation Novelist Nationality Italian Genres World War II Mario Rigoni Stern (November 1, 1921, Asiago – June 16, 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran.[1]
His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 (and the following year in English as The Sergeant in the Snow), draws on his own experience as a Sergeant Major in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in World War II. It is his only work to be translated into English and Spanish.
Other well-known works also include Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo's Seasons), Storia di Tönle (The Story of Tönle), and the collection of short stories Sentieri sotto la neve (Paths Beneath the Snow).
He was awarded the Premio Campiello and the Premio Bagutta for Storia di Tönle, and the Italian PEN prize for Sentieri sotto la neve.
Works
- Il sergente nella neve (1953), translated into English as The sergeant in the snow (1954)
- Il bosco degli urogalli (1962)
- Quota Albania (1971)
- Ritorno sul Don (1973)
- Storia di Tönle (1978)
- Uomini, boschi e api (1980)
- L'anno della vittoria (1985)
- Amore di confine (1986)
- Arboreto salvatico (1991)
- Le stagioni di Giacomo (1995)
- Sentieri sotto la neve (1998)
- Inverni lontani (1999)
- Tra due guerre e altre storie (2000)
- L'ultima partita a carte (2002)
- Stagioni (2006)
Notes
Bagutta Prize-winning authors Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927) · Giovanni Comisso (1928) · Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929) · Gino Rocca (1930) · Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931) · Leonida Rèpaci (1932) · Raul Radice (1933) · Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934) · Enrico Sacchetti (1935) · Silvio Negro (1936) · Dario Ortolani (1947) · Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948) · Giulio Confalonieri (1949) · Vitaliano Brancati (1950) · Indro Montanelli (1951) · Francesco Serantini (1952) · Leonardo Borghese (1953) · Giuseppe Marotta (1954) · Alfonso Gatto (1955) · Giuseppe Lanza (1956) · Pier Angelo Soldini (1957) · Lorenzo Montano (1958) · Italo Calvino (1959) · Enrico Emanuelli (1960) · Giorgio Vigolo (1961) · Giuseppe Dessì (1962) · Ottiero Ottieri (1963) · Tommaso Landolfi (1964) · Biagio Marin (1965) · Manlio Cancogni (1966) · Primo Levi (1967) · Piero Chiara (1968) · Niccolò Tucci (1969) · Alberto Vigevani (1970) · Pietro Gadda Conti (1971) · Anna Banti (1972) · Sergio Solmi (1973) · Gianni Celati (1974) · Enzo Forcella (1975) · Mario Soldati (1976) · Sandro Penna (1977) · Carlo Cassola (1878) · Mario Rigoni Stern (1979) · Giovanni Macchia (1980) · Pietro Citati (1981) · Vittorio Sereni (1982) · Giorgio Bassani (1983) · Natalia Ginzburg (1984) · Francesca Duranti (1985) · Leonardo Sciascia (1986) · Claudio Magris (1987) · Luciano Erba (1988) · Luigi Meneghello (1989) · Fleur Jaeggy (1990) · Livio Garzanti (1991) · Giorgio Bocca (1992) · Giovanni Giudici (1993) · Alberto Arbasino (1994) · Daniele Del Giudice (1995) · Raffaello Baldini (1996) · Sergio Ferrero (1997) · Giovanni Raboni (1998) · Fabio Carpi (1999) · Andrea Zanzotto – Mariano Bargellini (2000) · Serena Vitale (2001) · Roberto Calasso – Giorgio Orelli (2002) · Michele Mari – Edoardo Sanguineti – Eva Cantarella (2003) · Franco Cordero (2004) · Rosetta Loy (2005) · Filippo Tuena – Eugenio Borgna (2006) · Alessandro Spina (2007) · Andrej Longo (2008)Categories:- 1921 births
- 2008 deaths
- People from Asiago
- Alpini
- Italian soldiers
- Italian military personnel of World War II
- Italian novelists
- Italian writer stubs
- Italian military personnel stubs
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