Vincenzo Consolo

Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012^[1]) was an Italian writer.

Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello, but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio (The Smile of the Unknown Mariner) and went on to become an award-winning author.^[2]

Awards

Strega Prize - 1992
Nino Martoglio International Book Award - 1999

References

Recipients of the Strega Prize

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

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