Carlo Emilio Gadda Writer

Carlo Emilio Gadda (November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.

Personal facts

Carlo Emilio Gadda
Birth dateNovember 14, 1893
Birth place
Kingdom of Italy , Milan
Date of deathMay 21, 1973
Place of death
Kingdom of Italy

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Writer

Career start1932
Career end1973
award
Viareggio Prize
Bagutta Prize
movement
Literary modernism

Carlo Emilio Gadda on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/italian/gadda
  2. http://www.carloemiliogadda.net
  3. http://www.gadda.ed.ac.uk/Pages/resources/archive/classics/cattanlomb.php