WRITER

Elio Vittorini

1908 - 1966

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Elio Vittorini (Italian: [ˈɛːljo vittoˈriːni] ; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elio Vittorini has received more than 83,058 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elio Vittorini is the 2,643rd most popular writer (up from 3,213th in 2019), the 2,491st most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,707th in 2019) and the 165th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

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  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Diario in pubblico
1957
Il Sempione strizza l'occhio al Frejus
1948
Piccola borghesia
1931
Uomini e no
1945
Il garofano rosso
1948
Conversazione in Sicilia
Fascism, Fiction, History
1945

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elio Vittorini ranks 2,643 out of 7,302. Before him are Rahman Baba, Asadi Tusi, Richard Bandler, Mary Astell, Duris of Samos, and Jean Ray. After him are Jules Supervielle, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jules Guesde, Olga Rozanova, Tom Sharpe, and John Cheever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Elio Vittorini ranks 146. Before him are Anna Sten, Juan López Fontana, Mel Blanc, Lupe Vélez, Paul Henreid, and Henryk Zygalski. After him are John Tuzo Wilson, Michel Marcel Navratil, Robert Morley, Karel Ančerl, Sœur Emmanuelle, and Paula Mollenhauer. Among people deceased in 1966, Elio Vittorini ranks 93. Before him are George Ohsawa, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alfred P. Sloan, Arthur Percival, Boris Podolsky, and Helen Kane. After him are Vilis Lācis, Heimito von Doderer, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Alfred Neuland, and Stanisław Mikołajczyk.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elio Vittorini ranks 2,491 out of 5,161. Before him are Alessandro Nannini (1959), Spurius Cassius Viscellinus (-540), Stefano Delle Chiaie (1936), Duris of Samos (-340), Pietro Vierchowod (1959), and Patty Pravo (1948). After him are Pietro Nenni (1891), Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (1880), Mastino II della Scala (1308), Eraldo Monzeglio (1906), Margaret of Sicily (1237), and Anna Juliana Gonzaga (1566).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Elio Vittorini ranks 165. Before him are Ugo Betti (1892), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), Ottavio Rinuccini (1562), Ada Negri (1870), and Duris of Samos (-340). After him are Alda Merini (1931), Giuseppe Giacosa (1847), Michele Ruggieri (1543), Sibilla Aleramo (1876), Guido Guinizelli (1230), and Moderata Fonte (1555).

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