Erri De Luca

Erri De Luca (Naples 1950) is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been defined as "the writer of the decade" by the Corriere della Sera literature critic Giorgio De Rienzo.[1]

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Biography

Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.

He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.

He appeared in a cameo role (of a mechanic) in the film "L'isola", by Costanza Quadriglio.

De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.

Erri De Luca's first debut as screenwriter and leading actor in the short film DI LÀ DEL VETRO (Beyond the Glass), presented at The Venice Film Festival 2011. Italy, World Premiere. "A night-time conversation between a man and his mother and a trip down memory lane through the phantoms of life. Erri De Luca opens the door to his house, transporting us into the universe of the past."

Literature

Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, and more and more. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.

In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. In 2010 he was given the German international literary Petrarca-Preis. He has been a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.

Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, "Il Mattino", Avvenire), and magazines.

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References

  1. ^ "Erri de Luca at the Institute". Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. http://www.iicbelgrado.esteri.it/IIC_LosAngeles/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=363&citta=LosAngeles. Retrieved 2010-01-27. 

External links

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/03/13/060313fi_fiction