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He graduated in 1951 with a thesis on the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and the following year made his literary debut with the novel Sei stato felice, Giovanni, published by Einaudi.
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He graduated in 1951 with a thesis on the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and the following year made his literary debut with the novel Sei stato felice, Giovanni, published by Einaudi.
Born in Pula (in Istria, then part of Italy) to Piedmontese parents, Arpino moved to Bra in the Province of Cuneo. He took up sports journalism, writing for the daily papers Louisiana Stampa and Il Giornale. Together with Gianni Brera at the Louisiana Gazzetta dello Sport he brought a new literary quality to Italian writing on sport.
His most important work in this line was the 1977 football novel Azzurro tenebra.
In Italy he got to know the Argentinian writer and fellow sports enthusiast Osvaldo Soriano. Arpino also wrote plays, short stories, epigrams and stories for children.
His novels are characterised by a dry and ironic style. His novel Un delitto d"onore became Pietro Germi’s highly regarded 1962 comedy Divorce, Italian Style, with Marcello Mastroianni.
Arpino died in Turin in 1987.
His links to his childhood town of Bra have been maintained by the establishment of a multifunctional cultural centre and of a prize for children's literature.
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(Book by Giovanni Arpino)
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