Edith Bruck

Edith Bruck (born 3 May 1932) is a Hungarian-born writer and director who has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian.^[1]

Life and career

The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she was born Edith Steinschreiber in the village of Tiszabercel near the Ukrainian border. In 1944, with her parents, two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally Bergen-Belsen, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945. One brother also died in the concentration camps. She returned to Hungary and then went to Czechoslovakia, where another sister was living with her family. When she was sixteen, she married Milan Grün and moved to Israel; the couple divorced the following year. She then married Dany Roth, but that marriage also ended in divorce. She next married an acquaintance named Bruck to postpone her compulsory military service; she had divorced him by the time that she was twenty but kept his surname. In 1954, Bruck moved to Rome. In Italy, she married Italian writer and director Nelo Risi. In 1959, she published her autobiography Chi ti ama così , later translated as Who loves you like this (2001).^[2]

In 1971, she wrote her first play Sulla Porta. Bruck was a founder of the Teatro della Maddalena theatre in Rome. From the 1970s to the 1990s, she worked for the RAI as a director and screenwriter.^[1]

She translated works by the Hungarian poets Jòzsef Attila and Miklós Radnóti into Italian.^[1] Her own work has been translated into other languages including Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, English and German.^[3]

Selected works^[1]

Andremo in città, short stories (1962), title story adapted as a film in 1966
Due stanze vuote, short stories (1974), finalist for the Strega Prize^[3]
Per il tuo bene, play (1975)
Mio splendido disastro, novel (1979)
Lettera alla madre epistolary novel, (1988), received the Rapallo Carige Prize^[3]
Nuda proprietà (1993), finalist for the Strega Prize^[3]
Il silenzio degli amanti, novel (1997)
L’amore offeso, novel (2002)
Quanta stella c’è nel cielo, novel (2009), received the Viareggio Prize, adapted to film as Anita B.

Filmography^[1]

Improvviso, director (1979)
Quale Sardegna?, director (1983)
Fotografando Patrizia, writer (1984)
Altare per la madre, director (1986)
Per odio per amore, writer (1991)

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Edith Bruck". Institute of Modern Languages Research.
↑ "Bruck, Edith (1932- )". Italian Women Writers. University of Chicago Library.
1 2 3 4 Balma, Philip (2014). Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives. pp. 2–10. ISBN 1557536872.

External links

Edith Bruck at the Internet Movie Database

Recipients of the Viareggio Prize

1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)

1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)

1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)

1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)

1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)

1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)

1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)

2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)

2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 47569496 LCCN: n88084941 ISNI: 0000 0000 7860 3048 GND: 119348373 BNF: cb16945999z (data) ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\077154

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