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Italian writer (1939–2024)

Gianfranco Calligarich
Born3 May 1939 (1939-05-03)
Asmara, Italian East Africa (now Eritrea)
Died25 November 2024 (2024-11-26) (aged 85)
OccupationWriter

Gianfranco Calligarich (3 May 1939 – 25 November 2024) was an Italian novelist, screenwriter and dramatist.

Life and career

Born in Asmara on 3 May 1939, to a family of Trieste origins, after the World War II Calligarich moved with his family to Milan, where he started working as a journalist. In 1961, he was sent by the magazine he worked for to Rome to run the local department, and from then on he settled in the capital. After writing a few short stories, in 1973 he released his debut novel Last Summer in the City (L'ultima estate in città), which after having been rejected from all the major editors was published by Garzanti upon suggestion of Natalia Ginzburg. In the following years, Calligarich focused on television and film screenwriting, and in 1994 he founded the stage company Teatro XX Secolo.

Calligarich made his literary return in 2002, with the collection of short stories Posta prioritaria ("Priority Mail"). In 2011, he won the Bagutta Prize with Privati abissi ("Private abysses"), and in 2017 he won the Viareggio Prize with La malinconia dei Crusich ("Melancholy of the Crusichs").

Calligarich died on 25 November 2024, at the age of 85.

References

  1. Formaggio, Diana; Marraro, Francesco (1987). "Calligarich, Gianfranco". Il "chi è" del giornalismo italiano: repertorio ragionato ad uso degli uffici stampa. Al. Ver. editrice. p. 106t.
  2. VV.AA. (1994). "Calligarich, Gianfranco". Il repertorio del giornalismo italiano. Olgiata Editrice. p. 100.
  3. ^ Di Stefano, Paolo (15 August 2010). "I romanzi di oggi? Da dimenticare". Corriere della Sera. p. 42.
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  5. ^ "Calligarich, il mio primo romanzo tra affondi e risalite". ANSA (in Italian). 29 June 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  6. Gasperetti, Marco (27 August 2017). "Premio Viareggio, non solo vincitori: dopo 88 anni arriva l'archivio". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  7. "Addio a Gianfranco Calligarich". Il Libraio. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.

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Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s
1940sSilvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950sFrancesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960sGiovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970sNello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980sStefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990sLuisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000sGiorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010sNicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020sPaolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)
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