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Goffredo Parise

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Goffredo Parise photographed by Paolo Monti in 1982
Goffredo Parise, 1965

Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter.[1] He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel Il padrone (The Boss) and the Strega Prize in 1982 for Sillabario n.2.[2]

Works

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  • The Dead Boy and the Comets, translated by Marianne Ceconi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953
  • Don Gastone and the Ladies, trans. by Stuart Hood, New York: Knopf, 1955
  • The Boss, trans. by William Weaver, New York: Knopf, 1966
  • Solitudes, trans. by Isabel Quigly, introduction by Natalia Ginzburg, New York: Vintage, 1982
  • Abecedary, trans. by James Marcus, Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990
  • The Smell of Blood, trans by John Shepley, Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 2003

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Mueller, Christian; Salonia, Matteo (9 June 2022). Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present. Springer Nature. pp. 272–286. ISBN 978-981-19-0124-9.
  2. ^ Marwick, Arthur (2002). The Arts in the West Since 1945. Oxford University Press. pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-0-19-289266-9.