Franco Mimmi
Encyclopedia
Franco Mimmi is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an Italian
Italy
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journalist
Journalist
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and novelist.
He has written for some Italian newspaper
Newspaper
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s such as Il Resto del Carlino, La Stampa, Il Corriere della Sera, L'Espresso, Il Sole-24 Ore and L'Unità.
Some of his books have been translated into French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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Novels and Tales
- Rivoluzione (1979, "Scanno Opera Prima" prize)
- Relitti-A Tale of Time (1988)
- Villaggio Vacanze (1994)
- Il nostro agente in Giudea (2000, "Scerbanenco-La Stampa" prize)
- Un cielo così sporco (2001)
- Amanti latini, la storia di Catullo e Lesbia (con Carlo Frabetti, 2001)
- La guerra es la madre de todas las cosas (in "Daños colaterales", 2002)
- Vom Vater und vom Sohn (in "Schwarze Gedanken: Kriminelle Geschichten", 2002)
- Cavaliere di Grazia (2003, nominated for the "Premio dei Lettori" and "Città di Scalea" prizes)
- Una vecchiaia normale (2004)
- I grandi seduttori sono lupi solitari - Racconti di coppia (2005)
- Holbox (2005) (in "Brivido Nero" with Valerio Massimo Manfredi)
- Povera spia (2006)
- Lontano da Itaca (2007)
- Oracoli & Miracoli (2009)
- Tra il Dolore e il Nulla (2010)
- Corso di lettura creativa (2011)
Essays
- Il giornalismo nella letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea (Slavia, 2010-1)
- Ulisse: uno, cento, mille viaggi (El tema del viaje - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
- Imparare a leggere (Slavia, 2010-4)
- L’Unità d’Italia - Ilusión e delusioni nelle pagine di tre grandi scrittori: Anna Banti, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Federico de Roberto (Università di Cordoba - Convegno su "ITALIA 150 AÑOS DESPUÉS DE LA UNIFICACIÓN")
Critical Studies
- Manuel Gil Rovira, University of Salamanca:"Notas sobre dos periodistas narradores: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y Franco Mimmi".
- Maria Dolores Castro Jiménez, Complutense University of Madrid:"Ítaca te regaló un hermoso viaje: estudio mitográfico del Ulises de Franco Mimmi".
- Ferdinando Castelli S.I.: "Variazioni sul tema Gesù - Opere di Sebastiano Vassalli e Franco Mimmi.". La Civiltà Cattolica, 21 maggio 2011.