Giuseppe Pontiggia

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Giuseppe Pontiggia (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ponˈtiddʒa]; 25 September 1934 – 27 June 2003) was an Italian writer and literary critic.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting in 1961.

His first novel was L'arte della fuga in 1968. Pontiggia won the Premio Strega in 1989 with La grande sera and the Premio Campiello in 2001 with Nati due volte. He also wrote numerous articles and essays.

He died in Milan in 2003 of a circulatory stroke. He was an atheist.^[1]

Bibliography[edit]

Essays[edit]

Novels and short story anthologies[edit]

La morte in banca (1959)
L'arte della fuga (1968; 1990 revised)
Il giocatore invisibile (1978)
Il raggio d'ombra (1983)
La grande sera (1989)
Vite di uomini non illustri (1994)
Nati due volte (2000)
Prima persona (2002)
Il residence delle ombre cinesi (2003, posthumous)

References[edit]

^ Domenico Scafoglio, Felice Piemontese, L'invenzione della realtà, Guida Editori, 1994, p. 121.

External links[edit]

Browse Pontiggia library catalogue [1] kept by Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura.

v t e Recipients of the Strega Prize
1947–1950	1947 Ennio Flaiano 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti 1950 Cesare Pavese
1951–1975	1951 Corrado Alvaro 1952 Alberto Moravia 1953 Massimo Bontempelli 1954 Mario Soldati 1955 Giovanni Comisso 1956 Giorgio Bassani 1957 Elsa Morante 1958 Dino Buzzati 1959 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1960 Carlo Cassola 1961 Raffaele La Capria 1962 Mario Tobino 1963 Natalia Ginzburg 1964 Giovanni Arpino 1965 Paolo Volponi 1966 Michele Prisco 1967 Anna Maria Ortese 1968 Alberto Bevilacqua 1969 Lalla Romano 1970 Guido Piovene 1971 Raffaello Brignetti 1972 Giuseppe Dessì 1973 Manlio Cancogni 1974 Guglielmo Petroni 1975 Tommaso Landolfi
1976–2000	1976 Fausta Cialente 1977 Fulvio Tomizza 1978 Ferdinando Camon 1979 Primo Levi 1980 Vittorio Gorresio 1981 Umberto Eco 1982 Goffredo Parise 1983 Mario Pomilio 1984 Pietro Citati 1985 Carlo Sgorlon 1986 Maria Bellonci 1987 Stanislao Nievo 1988 Gesualdo Bufalino 1989 Giuseppe Pontiggia 1990 Sebastiano Vassalli 1991 Paolo Volponi 1992 Vincenzo Consolo 1993 Domenico Rea 1994 Giorgio Montefoschi 1995 Mariateresa Di Lascia 1996 Alessandro Barbero 1997 Claudio Magris 1998 Enzo Siciliano 1999 Dacia Maraini 2000 Ernesto Ferrero
2001–present	2001 Domenico Starnone 2002 Margaret Mazzantini 2003 Melania Gaia Mazzucco 2004 Ugo Riccarelli 2005 Maurizio Maggiani 2006 Sandro Veronesi 2007 Niccolò Ammaniti 2008 Paolo Giordano 2009 Tiziano Scarpa 2010 Antonio Pennacchi 2011 Edoardo Nesi 2012 Alessandro Piperno 2013 Walter Siti 2014 Francesco Piccolo 2015 Nicola Lagioia 2016 Edoardo Albinati 2017 Paolo Cognetti 2018 Helena Janeczek 2019 Antonio Scurati 2020 Sandro Veronesi 2021 Emanuele Trevi 2022 Mario Desiati

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