Background
Vincenzo Consolo was born on the 18th of February, 1933 in the village of Sant'agata Di Militello, on the northern coast of Sicily, the son of Calogero and Maria (Giallombardo) Consolo.
2008
Vincenzo Consolo
Piazza Pugliatti, 1, 98122 Messina ME, Italy
Vincenzo Consolo earned a philosophy of law degree from University of Messina
Vincenzo Consolo with wife, Caterina Pilenga
Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo
(Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments...)
Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments, this novel evokes the hopes, despairs, false starts and brutal ends of a struggle for change during the Risorgimento, when Garibaldi landed in Sicily in 1860 and common folk believed social justice would follow.
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1994
Vincenzo Consolo was born on the 18th of February, 1933 in the village of Sant'agata Di Militello, on the northern coast of Sicily, the son of Calogero and Maria (Giallombardo) Consolo.
Vincenzo Consolo moved to Milan, Italy where he earned a philosophy of law degree from the University of Messina.
Consolo received an honorary degree in Modern Philology from the University of Palermo in 2007.
Vincenzo Consolo served in the military in Rome. He then returned to Sicily to teach for five years and also worked at RAI (Italian television network), during which time he met two writers who would become influential to his own development.
Consolo's first novel “La ferita dell'aprile” was written in 1963 and was barely noticed until after the success of the second “Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio” in 1976. His novel “La ferita dell'aprile” is the story of a young Sicilian in a religious institution following World War II whose goal is to become a writer. Consolo wrote “Lunaria” in 1985. In different ways, and at different levels, Consolo's book is a travelogue, an extended metaphor, a love story or a cluster of crisscrossing love stories. Vincenzo’s “Lo Spasimo di Palermo” that was written in 1998, can be described as a narrative poem. The central character in the novel is Chino Martinez, a Sicilian-born man who is guilt-ridden over the fact that as a child, he may have betrayed his father's hiding place to the Germans and for not speaking out against the Mafia before the murders of the 1990s.
Among Vincenzo’s other major works are “Retablo” in 1987, “Nottetempo, casa per casa” in 1992, “l’olivo e l’olivastro” in 1994, “Di qua dal faro” in 2001. He wrote many stories such as “Le Pierre di Pantalica” in 1988, “Per un po’ d’erba ai limiti del feudo” in 1967, “Un giorno come gli altri” in 1983, “Catarsi” in 1989, “Il cortex di Dionisio” in 2009.
(Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments...)
1994Vincenzo was married to Caterina Pilenga.