Giovanni Battista Angioletti

Italian writer and journalist

Giovanni Battista Angioletti
Photograph of the Italian writer, taken in 1956.
Born	(1896-11-27)27 November 1896 Milan, Italy
Died	3 August 1961(1961-08-03) (aged 64)
Occupation(s)	Writer, Journalist

Giovanni Battista Angioletti (27 November 1896 – 3 August 1961) was an Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Angioletti was born in Milan in 1896 and was gifted with a lively and reflective intelligence. His plans to qualify as an engineer were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I; at the end of the conflict he decided instead to embark upon a literary career, combining work as a journalist with writing fiction. In 1928 Il giorno del giudizio became the first winner of the Premio Bagutta. In 1929 he became editor of the magazine Italia letteraria and started to write for the Corriere della Sera; in the following year he founded the literary review Trifalco.

From 1934 he spent much of his time abroad, lecturing at the universities of Dijon and Besançon and acting as director of the institutes of Italian culture in Prague and Paris. He remained in France for much of World War II, returning to Italy only in 1945.

Here he resumed his role at Italia letteraria, (now published as Fiera Letteraria) and continued to write fiction, winning the 1949 Strega Prize with La memoria, published by Bompiani. In the decade following he played a part in the birth of Italy's Radio 3 and directed a number of cultural programmes for the station.

Angioletti was for many years secretary of the Italian writers' union, the Sindacato Nazionale Scrittori Italiani, and was the first chairman of the European Community of Writers.

Giovanni Battista Angioletti died in Santa Maria la Bruna, near Naples in 1961 at the age of 64. In the previous year, his career had been crowned with the award of the Viareggio Prize for I grandi ospiti.

Principal works

Fiction

Il giorno del giudizio, Torino, 1928; Premio Bagutta
Il buon veliero, Lanciano, 1930
Il generale in esilio, Firenze, 1938
Donata, Firenze, 1941
Eclisse di luna, Firenze, 1943
La memoria, Milano, 1949; Premio Strega
Narciso, Milano, 1949
Giobbe uomo solo, Milano, 1955

Essays and criticism

Scrittori d'Europa, Milano, 1928
Servizio di guardia, Lanciano, 1932
L'Europa d'oggi, Lanciano, 1934
Le carte parlanti, Firenze, 1941
Vecchio continente, Roma, 1942
L'Italia felice, Roma, 1947
Inchiesta segreta, Milano, 1953
L'anatra alla normanna, Milano, 1957
L'uso della parola, Caltanissetta-Roma, 1958
I grandi ospiti, Firenze 1960; Premio Viareggio
Tutta l'Europa, Roma, 1961
Gli italiani sono onesti, Milano, 1968; (published posthumously)

References

The first version of this article was based on its counterparts in the Italian and French Wikipedias: it:Giovanni Battista Angioletti and fr:Giovanni Battista Angioletti. Both are licensed under the GFDL.

Recipients of the Bagutta Prize

1920s

Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927)
Giovanni Comisso (1928)
Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)

1930s

Gino Rocca (1930)
Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931)
Leonida Rèpaci (1932)
Raul Radice (1933)
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934)
Enrico Sacchetti (1935)
Silvio Negro (1936)

1940s

Dario Ortolani (1947)
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948)
Giulio Confalonieri (1949)

1950s

Vitaliano Brancati (1950)
Indro Montanelli (1951)
Francesco Serantini (1952)
Leonardo Borghese (1953)
Giuseppe Marotta (1954)
Alfonso Gatto (1955)
Giuseppe Lanza (1956)
Pier Angelo Soldini (1957)
Lorenzo Montano (1958)
Italo Calvino (1959)

1960s

Enrico Emanuelli (1960)
Giorgio Vigolo (1961)
Giuseppe Dessì (1962)
Ottiero Ottieri (1963)
Tommaso Landolfi (1964)
Biagio Marin (1965)
Manlio Cancogni (1966)
Primo Levi (1967)
Piero Chiara (1968)
Niccolò Tucci (1969)

1970s

Alberto Vigevani (1970)
Piero Gadda Conti (1971)
Anna Banti (1972)
Sergio Solmi (1973)
Gianni Celati (1974)
Enzo Forcella (1975)
Mario Soldati (1976)
Sandro Penna (1977)
Carlo Cassola (1978)
Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)

1980s

1990s

Fleur Jaeggy (1990)
Livio Garzanti (1991)
Giorgio Bocca (1992)
Giovanni Giudici (1993)
Alberto Arbasino (1994)
Daniele Del Giudice (1995)
Raffaello Baldini (1996)
Sergio Ferrero (1997)
Giovanni Raboni (1998)
Fabio Carpi (1999)

2000s

Andrea Zanzotto
Mariano Bargellini (2000)
Serena Vitale (2001)
Roberto Calasso
Giorgio Orelli (2002)
Michele Mari
Edoardo Sanguineti
Eva Cantarella (2003)
Franco Cordero (2004)
Rosetta Loy (2005)
Filippo Tuena
Eugenio Borgna (2006)
Alessandro Spina (2007)
Andrej Longo (2008)
Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)

2010s

Corrado Stajano (2010)
Andrea Bajani (2011)
Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012)
Antonella Tarpino (2013)
Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014)
Sandro Veronesi (2015)
Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016)
Vivian Lamarque (2017)
Helena Janeczek (2018)
Marco Balzano (2019)

2020s

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

v t e Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s	Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)

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