Giorgio Orelli
Illustration — Giorgio Orelli in 1994 Giorgio Orelli (25 May 1921 – 10 November 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator. He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.
Giorgio Orelli
- Born
- 1921 · Airolo.
- Died
- 2013 · Ravecchia.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- writer · poet · translator · literary critic
- Education
- University of Fribourg
- Honours
- Schiller prize · Bagutta Prize · Dessì Prize
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Giorgio Orelli in 1994 Giorgio Orelli (25 May 1921 – 10 November 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator. He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.
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A post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation. Called the Tuscan from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism". He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura). His cousin Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet. Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier Michela Figini.
• Né bianco né viola, Lugano, Collana di Lugano, 1944. • Prima dell'anno nuovo, Bellinzona, Leins e Vescovi, 1952. • Poesie, Milan, Edizioni della Meridiana, 1953. • Nel cerchio familiare, Milan, Scheiwiller, 1960. • L'ora del tempo, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1962. • 6 poesie, Milan, Scheiwiller, 1964. • 5 poesie, con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti, San Nazzaro, Switzerland, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973. • Sinopie, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1977. • Spiracoli, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989. • Il collo dell'anitra, Milan, Garzanti, 2001.
Poems translated in English
Poems translated in English
• by Lynne Lawner in Verse Daily, and Jean Garrigue, ed. Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, Ohio, 1970 • by Marco Sonzogni,
Prose
Prose
• Un giorno della vita, Milan, Lerici, 1960. • Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.
Translations
Translations
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Poesie scelte, Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974.
Essays
Essays
• Accertamenti verbali, Milan, Bompiani, 1978. • Quel ramo del lago di Como, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1982 e 1990. • Accertamenti montaliani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1984. • Il suono dei sospiri, Turin, Einaudi, 1990. • Foscolo e la danzatrice, Parma, Pratiche, 1992. • La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2012.
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Airolo.
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Ravecchia.
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Awards
• 1944 Premio Lugano • 1960 Premio Città di Firenze, Premio Libera Stampa • 1979 Honorary Degree, University of Fribourg • 1988 Grand Prix Schiller of the Swiss Schiller Foundation • 1997 UBS Culture Foundation • 2001 Premio Piero Chiara • 2002 Bagutta Prize • 2008 BSI Award
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- 1.Tio.ch. Ticinonline - L'addio a Giorgio Orelli: "Torneremo a incontrarlo con riconoscenza". 2013-01-01.
- 2.Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, Quarta generazione: la giovane poesia (1945-1954), Magenta, Varese, 1954
- 3.Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/722071/Giorgio-Orelli
- 4.Verse Daily. Giorgio Orelli, translated by Lynne Lawner.
- 5.Verse Daily. Carnival at Prato.
- 6.da samgha. Earthly Wonders: the Poetry of Giorgio Orelli. Samgharivista.com.
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