Alberto Bevilacqua
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Alberto Bevilacqua
(1934–). Novelist who is also a prolific journalist and cinema director. He achieved widespread popularity with La califfa (1964), which he adapted as his first film in 1966. His numerous other novels resuscitate traditional realism in a variety of ways. Most coherent are autobiographical novels of his native Parma, such as La festa parmigiana (1980). Formally and stylistically more adventurous explorations of relations between the sexes, such as L'occhio del gatto (1968), have had a mixed reception. Bevilacqua has also published various collections of poems.
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Alberto Bevilacqua
| Alberto Bevilacqua | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 June 1934 Parma, Italy |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1970 - 1999 |
Alberto Bevilacqua (born 27 June 1934, Parma) is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.
Friendship Lost, his first book of poems, was published in 1961. Caliph, published in 1964, was his break-through novel. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature. His novel This Kind of Love won the Campiello Prize in 1966. In both This Kind of Love and Caliph, Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions. This Kind of Love won Best Film at Cannes.
Bevilacqua is also a poet. His writings have been translated throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil, China and Japan. In 2010, his seven "stories" as he likes to call them, are included in the Novels volume of the prestigious series "I Meridiani.”[1]
He directed seven films between 1970 and 1999. His 1970 film La califfa was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Selected filmography
- La califfa (1970)
References
- ^ (Arte e Letteratura ed.).
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: La califfa". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2423/year/1971.html. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
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