Paolo Cognetti
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Born | 27 January 1978 (1978-01-27) (age 46) Milan, Italy |
Occupation | Writer |
Awards | Subway-Letteratura, Premio Strega,Premio Médicis |
Paolo Cognetti (born 27 January 1978 in Milan) is an Italian writer. He started studying mathematics at university, but quit to enroll at Milan's film-making school Civica Scuola di Cinema «Luchino Visconti», where he graduated in 1999. He taught himself American literature and started directing documentaries in 2004, especially about social, political and literary topics. His first work as a writer was the short story Fare ordine, which won the Premio Subway−Letteratura. He loves New York City, which has become the main subject of some of his documentaries. His other passion is the mountains, where he likes to spend a few months alone every year. In 2016, he published his first novel Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains, English translation by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre for Atria Books, 2018),[1] which granted him the Premio Strega 2017, Italy′s most prestigious literary award, as well as various international awards, such as the Prix Médicis étranger, the Prix François Sommer, and the English Pen Translates Award.[2]
Works
- Fare ordine. [Genere: storia d'amore; 1 racconto da 5 fermate], Milan, 2003
- Manuale per ragazze di successo, Rome, 2004
- Una cosa piccola che sta per esplodere, Rome, 2007
- Sofia si veste sempre di nero, Rome, 2012
- Il nuotatore, with Mara Cerri, Rome, 2013
- Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), Turin, 2016[3]
- La felicità del Lupo, Turin, Einaudi, 2021
- Giù nella valle, Turin, Einaudi, 2023
Documentaries
- Scrivere/New York, 2004
Essay
- New York è una finestra senza tende, 2010
- Il ragazzo selvatico. Quaderno di montagna, Milan, 2013
- A pesca nelle pozze più profonde, Roma, 2014
- Tutte le mie preghiere guardano verso ovest, 2014
- Senza mai arrivare in cima, Turin, Einaudi, 2018
- L'Antonia. Poesie, lettere e fotografie di Antonia Pozzi scelte e raccontate da Paolo Cognetti, Milan, Ponte alle Grazie, 2021.
References
- ^ "The Eight Mountains (Paperback) by Paolo Cognetti: New Paperback (2019) | The Book Depository". www.abebooks.com.
- ^ Pellas, Francesca (8 November 2018). "What the Mountains Remember: An Interview with Paolo Cognetti". Words Without Borders.
- ^ East, Ben (18 March 2018). "The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti review – friends in high places". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
External links
- (in Italian)Sito casa editrice minimum fax, scheda di Paolo Cognetti.
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- 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli
- 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti
- 1950 Cesare Pavese
- 1951 Corrado Alvaro
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- 1956 Giorgio Bassani
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- 1961 Raffaele La Capria
- 1962 Mario Tobino
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- 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
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- 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 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
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