Luciano Bianciardi

Luciano Bianciardi
Born (1922-12-14)14 December 1922
Grosseto, Italy
Died 14 November 1971(1971-11-14) (aged 48)
Milan, Italy
Occupation Journalist, short story writer, novelist, translator
Nationality Italian
Notable works Il lavoro culturale
L'integrazione
La vita agra

Luciano Bianciardi (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃano bjanˈtʃardi]; 14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.

He contributed significantly to the cultural ferment in post-war Italy, working actively with various publishing houses, magazines and newspapers. His work is characterized by periods of rebellion against the cultural establishment, to which he also belonged, and by a careful analysis of social habits during Italian economic miracle.

He was the first Italian translator of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent and Travels with Charley, Jack London's John Barleycorn, J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man and William Faulkner's A Fable and The Mansion.

Among the others, he also translated: Stephen Crane's Maggie and The Red Badge of Courage, Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud, Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun, Cyril Northcote Parkinson's Parkinson's Law, Mary Renault's The King Must Die, Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, Irwin Shaw's Tip on a Dead Jockey, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited, Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Thomas Berger's Little Big Man and Killing Time.

Works

Novels

English editions

Essays

Latter collections

Short stories

Journalistic collections

Complete works

Filmography

Bibliography

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