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Antonio Tabucchi

1943 - 2012

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Antonio Tabucchi (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈbukki]; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Tabucchi is the 697th most popular writer (up from 758th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from Italy (up from 925th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Italian Writer.

Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer who is most famous for his novel "The Solitude of Prime Numbers".

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Among writers, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 697 out of 7,302. Before him are Tyrtaeus, Al-Maʿarri, Sidonius Apollinaris, Ismail Gaspirali, Muriel Spark, and Maurice Denis. After him are Tatian, Thomas Friedman, Eugène Sue, Dietrich Eckart, Matthew Lewis, and Stieg Larsson.

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Among people born in 1943, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 53. Before him are Ralph M. Steinman, Griselda Blanco, Klaus von Klitzing, Mariss Jansons, Mohammad Khatami, and Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. After him are Billie Jean King, Helmut Marko, Johann Deisenhofer, Hanna Schygulla, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, and Pervez Musharraf. Among people deceased in 2012, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 35. Before him are Gunnar Sønsteby, Andrew Huxley, Hebe Camargo, Carlos Fuentes, William Standish Knowles, and Sun Myung Moon. After him are Robin Gibb, Kiro Gligorov, John Demjanjuk, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Antoni Tàpies, and Carroll Shelby.

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Among people born in Italy, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 867 out of 5,161. Before him are Sejanus (-20), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508), Roberto Mancini (1964), and Andrew III of Hungary (1265). After him are Francesco Cavalli (1602), Antipope Felix II (300), Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (1503), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Cassiodorus (487), and Annibale de Gasparis (1819).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 60. Before him are Francesca da Rimini (1259), Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Pietro Metastasio (1698), and Vittoria Colonna (1490). After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Cassiodorus (487), Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Pietro Bembo (1470), Emilio Salgari (1862), and Natalia Ginzburg (1916).

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