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Elio Vittorini
Italian writer and novelist
Elio Vittorini | |
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| Born | ()23 July Syracuse, Sicily, Italy |
| Died | 12 February () (aged&#;57) Milan, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist, editor, politician |
| Language | Italian |
Elio Vittorini (Italian:[ˈɛːljovittoˈriːni]ⓘ; 23 July – 12 February ) was an Italian writer and novelist.
He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in The first U.S.
edition of the novel, published in , included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
Vittorini was one of the most prominent writers of Italian Neorealism in literature.
His own works of fiction, along with his translations of such American and English writers as William Saroyan, D. H. Lawrence, W