WRITER

Curzio Malaparte

1898 - 1957

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Curzio Malaparte (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkurtsjo malaˈparte]; born Kurt Erich Suckert; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957) was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curzio Malaparte has received more than 352,628 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Curzio Malaparte is the 634th most popular writer (down from 633rd in 2019), the 757th most popular biography from Italy (up from 791st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Italian Writer.

Curzio Malaparte was an Italian writer, journalist, and war correspondent. He is most famous for his novel The Skin, which is about the Nazi occupation of France.

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Notable Works

Kaputt
1946
La pelle
1949
Malaparte
1991
The Volga rises in Europe
History
The Italian journalist and novelist Curzio Malaparte had the extraordinary distinction of being the only war correspondent on the Eastern front who was actually permitted to travel to the front. His record of the war is therefore an account that is unique and utterly personal. Expelled from the southern part of the war zone on the orders of Goebbels, he was sent back by Mussolini in January 1942 to cover events in Finland, where the Germans had little control. From there he observed the siege of Leningrad. This is the writing of a man who knew and travelled in Russia extensively; a man with an astonishing eye for detail and a man of humanity and compassion. His account of the war does not trace the grand strategies, the great breakthroughs and clashes, but concentrates on individuals and little incidents: Ukrainian peasants eagerly rebuilding their church as the Red Army flees; Soviet soldiers listening, even as they fight, to the speeches of Stalin played endlessly on an old gramophone; aristocrats serving tea amidst the chaos of war; Finnish skiers silently flitting amongst the huge Soviet battleships frozen in the ice of Kronstadt. The result is a unique and moving testimony of the most terrible struggle of the twentieth century.
1957
Pelle
Naples (Italy)
Experiences of the author while serving as Italian liason officer with the 5th Army.
1952
Maledetti toscani
1956

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Curzio Malaparte ranks 634 out of 7,302. Before him are Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, Raymond Queneau, and Edward Bernays. After him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saul Bellow, Clarice Lispector, Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Walther von der Vogelweide.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Curzio Malaparte ranks 32. Before him are Henry Moore, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Karl Ziegler, René Clair, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, and Willy Messerschmitt. After him are Jeanne Hébuterne, Trofim Lysenko, Karl Hermann Frank, Peng Dehuai, Alexander Calder, and Joris Ivens. Among people deceased in 1957, Curzio Malaparte ranks 26. Before him are Richard E. Byrd, Irving Langmuir, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Joseph McCarthy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Alfred Döblin. After him are Jože Plečnik, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Heinrich Hoffmann, José Leandro Andrade, and Erich von Stroheim.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Curzio Malaparte ranks 757 out of 5,161. Before him are Atia (-85), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Domenico Modugno (1928), Lino Ventura (1919), Charles Edward Stuart (1720), and Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753). After him are Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (1749), Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769), Louise of Orléans (1812), Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360), Roger de Flor (1267), and Pope Anastasius II (450).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Curzio Malaparte ranks 53. Before him are Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Eugenio Montale (1896), Dino Buzzati (1906), Cassiodorus (487), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), and Poliziano (1454). After him are Giosuè Carducci (1835), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Giambattista Basile (1566), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Francesca da Rimini (1259), and Andrea Camilleri (1925).

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