Raffaello Brignetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian writer
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Place of Birth: Giglio, Tuscany, Italy
About Raffaello Brignetti
- Raffaello Brignetti (born Isola del Giglio, 21 September 1921 - died Rome, 7 February 1978) was an Italian writer.
- He grew up on the island of Elba where his father was a lighthouse keeper.
- He moved to Rome in the middle of the Second World War, and spent a couple of years in German labour camps.
- He studied modern Italian literature at university, graduating in 1947.
- He was a disciple of Ungaretti, in common with other young idealistic intellectuals of his era such as Leone Piccioni, Silori Luigi, Mario Petrucciani, Elio Filippo Accrocca, etc. He embarked on a journalistic career in Rome, working in leading papers like Il Tempo, Il Giornale d'Italia and the Corriere della Sera.
- In 1961, a car crash left Brignetti paralyzed.
- The ensuing years saw him at his most productive.
- He won the Premio Viareggio for Il gabbiano azzurro (1967), and the Premio Strega for La spiaggia d'oro (1971). He lived for a long time in the Medici tower of Marciana Marina on Elba and then in the small apartment at the foot of the tower.
- He died in 1978.
- The Isola d'Elba-Raffaele Brignetti Literary Prize is named after him.
- Brignetti's work is noted for its familiarity with, and treatment of, the sea and maritime life.
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