Goffredo Parise
Illustration — Goffredo Parise photographed by Paolo Monti in 1982 • Illustration — Goffredo Parise, 1965 Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel Il padrone (The Boss) and the Strega Prize in 1982 for Sillabario n.
Goffredo Parise

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- Born
- 1929 · Vicenza.
- Died
- 1986 · Treviso.
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- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
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- poet · screenwriter · journalist · writer · playwright · partisan
- Honours
- Viareggio Prize · Strega Prize · honorary doctor of the University of Padua · Premio Selezione Campiello · Flaiano Literary Prize
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Goffredo Parise photographed by Paolo Monti in 1982 • Illustration — Goffredo Parise, 1965 Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel Il padrone (The Boss) and the Strega Prize in 1982 for Sillabario n.
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• The Dead Boy and the Comets, translated by Marianne Ceconi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 • Don Gastone and the Ladies, trans. by Stuart Hood, New York: Knopf, 1955 • The Boss, trans. by William Weaver, New York: Knopf, 1966 • Solitudes, trans. by Isabel Quigly, introduction by Natalia Ginzburg, New York: Vintage, 1982 • Abecedary, trans. by James Marcus, Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990 • The Smell of Blood, trans by John Shepley, Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 2003
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Selected filmography
• Boccaccio '70 (1962) • La cuccagna (1962) • Careless (1962) • Agostino (1962) • Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) • L'assoluto naturale (1969)
Italian writer Goffredo Parise in the house of a friend in Milan
Italian magazine Tempo N. 19, year 1965

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1929
Goffredo Parise was born on 8 December 1929.
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Goffredo Parise died on 31 August 1986.
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Goffredo Parise received Viareggio Prize, Strega Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Padua, Premio Selezione Campiello and Flaiano Literary Prize. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Recorded as poet, screenwriter, journalist, writer and playwright.
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