Fulvio Tomizza

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Occupation Writer Name Fulvio Tomizza		Role Writer Awards Strega Prize

Born 26 January 1935Giurrizzania (now Juricani), part of Umago, Italy (now part of Croatia) ( 1935-01-26 ) Died May 21, 1999, Trieste, Italy Books Materada, La miglior vita, sposi di via Rossetti Similar People Scipio Slataper, Axel Scheffler, Elio Vittorini, Ivan Cankar, Leo Tolstoy

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Fulvio Tomizza (26 January 1935 – 21 May 1999) was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani di Materada in Istria, to a middleclass family of ancient southern dalmatian origins (his ancestor's name was Jure Jurcan [Zorzi Giurizzano], and came there in the XVI century in order to escape from the Ottoman invasion; southern Dalmatia and Istria were at the time both under the rule of the Republic of Venice; Venice was interested in the migration: Istria at the time was indeed underpopulated because of an epidemy). Tomizza grew up in a zone where the dialect was mixed (venetian mixed with Slavic words or slavic mixed with venetian words). He completed the high-school at the Italian Liceo "Carlo Combi" of Capodistria (now Koper, in Slovenia). After the diploma, he had experiences of study and work in the then Jugoslavia (Faculty of humanities in Belgrade and the shooting of a movie in Ljubljana). Following the 1954 annexation of Zone B by Yugoslavia, Tomizza moved to Trieste. Most of his writing career took place there, including three books (Materada, La miglior vita, La quinta stagione) set in the Istria of his youth. Other works include the figure of the bishop-reformer Pier Paolo Vergerio, the life of the exiled istrians in Italy, some events concerning the Slovenian community in Italy (one couple mysteriously killed during the IIWW in Trieste and the love story between an Italian official and a Slovenian girl; each story is based on true facts, using original letters), some fictions set in the venetian territory and various articles (also effect of his trips as reporter). The only book translated into English and published in the U.S. is "Heavenly supper: The Story of Maria Janis", translated by Anne Jacobson Shutte (an expert of Pier Paolo Vergerio). A study on the author in English language: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:be1d8655-e5b6-40e1-94b7-7c173808e8a1