WRITER

Dino Buzzati

1906 - 1972

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Dino Buzzati-Traverso (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdiːno butˈtsaːti]; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel The Tartar Steppe, although he is also known for his well-received collections of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dino Buzzati is the 608th most popular writer (down from 558th in 2019), the 769th most popular biography from Italy (down from 689th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Italian Writer.

Dino Buzzati is most famous for his novel The Tartar Steppe.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dino Buzzati ranks 608 out of 7,302Before him are Alfred de Musset, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ausonius, Lion Feuchtwanger, Bert Hellinger, and Ellen G. White. After him are Titus Pomponius Atticus, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Ludwig Tieck, Sei Shōnagon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Amin Maalouf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dino Buzzati ranks 46Before him are Marcelo Caetano, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, and Max Delbrück. After him are Klaus Mann, Albert Sabin, Ettore Majorana, Empress Wanrong, John Huston, and Lon Chaney Jr.. Among people deceased in 1972, Dino Buzzati ranks 24Before him are Paul Hausser, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Talal of Jordan, and Andrei Tupolev. After him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Maurice Chevalier, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Erhard Milch, and Heinrich Lübke.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dino Buzzati ranks 769 out of 5,161Before him are Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1072), Franco Baresi (1960), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Gianni Agnelli (1921), Arnolfo di Cambio (1240), and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (1822). After him are Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Angela Merici (1474), Luca Giordano (1634), Faustina the Younger (125), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), and Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Dino Buzzati ranks 46Before him are Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Tibullus (-50), and Salvatore Quasimodo (1901). After him are Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Aulus Gellius (123), Poliziano (1454), Gabriele Amorth (1925), Giambattista Basile (1566), and Eugenio Montale (1896).