Gianni

Celati

Gianni Celati has lived abroad for many years. He was born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1937. He debuted with a short novel entitled Comiche (Einaudi, 1971), introduced to the public by Italo Calvino. He subsequently published, again with Einaudi, three long adventure stories, "Le avventure di Guizzardi" (1972, Premio Bagutta; reprinted by Feltrinelli in 1994), followed by a volume of essays on the European narrative tradition, "Finzioni occidentali" (1975, reprinted by Einaudi in 1986), "La Banda dei Sospiri" (1976, Einaudi), and "Lunario del Paradiso" (Einaudi in 1978 and reprinted by Feltrinelli in 1996), which were reprinted in a single volume in 1989 by Feltrinelli under the title "Parlamenti buffi."

After a long silence he returned to fiction with some books of short stories published by Feltrinelli: "Narratori delle pianure" (1984, Cinque Scole Prize and Grinzane-Cavour Prize), "Quattro novelle sulle apparenze" (1987, Feltrinelli), "Parlamenti buffi and Verso la foce" (both 1989, Feltrinelli).
Among his other works we remember "Orlando in Love told in prose" (Einaudi 1994), "Performance by the actor Vecchiatto in the theatre of Rio Saliceto"
(Feltrinelli 1996), in 1998 "Adventures in Africa" ​​published by Feltrinelli and 9 new stories collected in Cinema naturale (2001, Feltinelli). In 1996-97 he was among the editors of the almanac «Il Semplice».

After the publication of his "Fata Morgana" (2005), ethnographic descriptions of an imaginary people, issue 28 of «Riga» was dedicated to Celati. In March
In 2013, Einaudi published James Joyce's Ulysses in a new version translated by Celati, the result of over seven years of work and long-awaited.

In 2016, a large collection of narrative works entitled Romanzi, cronache e racconti, edited by Marco
Belpoliti and Nunzia Palmieri.

Gianni Celati is a translator of Roland Barthes, L.-F. Céline, Jonathan Swift, Jack London, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and other French and English authors.

Since 1991, in collaboration with the production company Pierrot e la Rosa, he has directed four documentary films: "Strada provinciale delle anime"
(1991, 58 minutes), "The World of Luigi Ghirri" (1999, 52 minutes), "Scattered Houses", "Visions of Collapsing Houses" (2003, 61 minutes) and "Diol Kadd. Life, diaries and footage of a village in Senegal" (2010, 90 minutes).

In 2003 Gianni Celati was also the protagonist of the documentary film
New World by director Davide Ferrario.

Filmography
Provincial Road of Souls, Italy, 1991. Produced by Pierrot and the Rose/Rai
Three.
The World of Luigi Ghirri, Italy, 1999. Produced by Pierrot and the Rose.
Scattered Houses. Visions of Collapsing Houses, Italy, 2002. Produced by Pierrot and the
Rosa/Stefilm.
Diol Kadd. Life, diaries, and filming in a village in Senegal, Italy, 2010.
Produced by Pierrot and the Rose/Paofilm.