Elio Vittorini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elio Vittorini

Italian writer, literary translator and editor

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1908

Place of Birth: Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1966

Profession: writer, translator, editor, linguist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Elio Vittorini (Italian pronunciation: ['??ljo vitto'ri?ni] (listen); 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 is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941.
The first U.S.
edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.