WRITER

Vincenzo Consolo

1933 - 2012

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Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio (The Smile of the Unknown Mariner) and went on to become an award-winning author. In 2008 he was in Lisbon for a conference at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, where he met with the Portuguese poet Casimiro de Brito and Anna Luisa Pignatelli and wrote a comment on her novel "Nero Toscano". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenzo Consolo is the 5,721st most popular writer (up from 5,764th in 2019), the 3,977th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,963rd in 2019) and the 274th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 5,721 out of 7,302. Before him are Jan Lechoń, Melih Cevdet Anday, Paul Mattick, Charles Le Goffic, Alain Decaux, and Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov. After him are Erwin Strittmatter, Yuri Samarin, Horst Faas, J. Bernlef, Bill O'Reilly, and George Mikes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 439. Before him are Jiří Lanský, Miklós Ambrus, Frank Murkowski, Tim Conway, George J. Mitchell, and Masae Kasai. After him are Horst Faas, Jean Boiteux, Michael Parenti, Pete Wilson, Penelope Lively, and Tony Jay. Among people deceased in 2012, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 375. Before him are Pierre Adam, Alan Cottrell, Margaret Mahy, Bernard Lovell, and Susan Tyrrell. After him are Ivan Calin, Dick Clark, Robert Sabatier, Frank Pierson, Norman Joseph Woodland, Joe South, and Georg Leber.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 3,978 out of 5,161. Before him are Luigi De Agostini (1961), Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (1940), Niccolò Ammaniti (1966), Marta Abba (1900), Paola Pigni (1945), and Bruno Visintin (1932). After him are Riccardo Nowak (1885), Edera Cordiale (1920), Sicard of Benevento (null), Lola Pagnani (1972), Alberto Cova (1958), and Raffaele La Capria (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 274. Before him are Nino Martoglio (1870), Federico De Roberto (1861), Carlo Cassola (1917), Pietro Citati (1930), Riccardo Bacchelli (1891), and Niccolò Ammaniti (1966). After him are Raffaele La Capria (1922), Alfredo Panzini (1863), Luigi Galleani (1861), Lino Aldani (1926), Guido Gozzano (1883), and Goffredo Parise (1929).

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