WRITER

Pietro Citati

1930 - 2022

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Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino. In Kafka, Pietro Citati had the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him." From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of Corriere della Sera and was the literary critic for la Repubblica between 1988 and 2011, before returning to write for Corriere della Sera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Citati is the 5,604th most popular writer (up from 5,616th in 2019), the 3,923rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,904th in 2019) and the 271st most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Pietro Citati ranks 5,604 out of 7,302. Before him are Marianne Williamson, Gevorg Emin, John Norman, Patrick Chamoiseau, Karl Leberecht Immermann, and William Martin Leake. After him are José Gil Fortoul, Lőrinc Szabó, Riccardo Bacchelli, Mari Jungstedt, Keri Hulme, and Ivan Dmitriev.

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Among people born in 1930, Pietro Citati ranks 497. Before him are José Luis Artetxe, Francesco Maselli, Anthony Soter Fernandez, James Fifer, Sachiko Hidari, and Fatos Arapi. After him are Henry Lincoln, José Guardiola, Schafik Hándal, Vladimir Andreyev, Beryl Penrose, and Bob Baetens. Among people deceased in 2022, Pietro Citati ranks 486. Before him are John Emery, Leonid Shvartsman, Anita Gradin, Abuzed Omar Dorda, Géza Csapó, and Manuel Göttsching. After him are Henry Lincoln, Horacio Accavallo, Janusz Kupcewicz, Wilson Kiprugut, Miodrag Ješić, and Walter Abish.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Citati ranks 3,924 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Rutelli (1954), Morgan De Sanctis (1977), Sergio Gori (1946), Mauro Maur (1958), Paride Tumburus (1939), and Agostino Di Bartolomei (1955). After him are Riccardo Bacchelli (1891), Carlo Facetti (1935), Cristiano Lucarelli (1975), Giuseppe Crivelli (1900), Giuseppe Favalli (1972), and Dino Bruni (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Pietro Citati ranks 271. Before him are Federigo Tozzi (1883), Mario Luzi (1914), Anna Maria Ortese (1914), Nino Martoglio (1870), Federico De Roberto (1861), and Carlo Cassola (1917). After him are Riccardo Bacchelli (1891), Niccolò Ammaniti (1966), Vincenzo Consolo (1933), Raffaele La Capria (1922), Alfredo Panzini (1863), and Luigi Galleani (1861).

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