Un monologo, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1994 Novecento: pianist, 1994. Oceano Mare, Rizzoli 1993 Ocean Sea, ISBN 5-0, 1993.Awarded with Prix Médicis étranger – France Castelli di rabbia, Rizzoli 1991, Tascabili Bompiani 1994 Lands of Glass, Penguin 1992.In January 2022, Baricco announced he had been diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

He and his girlfriend Gloria Campaner live together. He has also worked with the French band Air, releasing ' City Reading', a mix of the band's music with Baricco's reading of his novel City.īaricco directed the critically acclaimed film Lezione 21 on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.īaricco resides in his hometown, Turin.

Larger recognition followed the adaptation of his theatrical monologue Novecento into the movie The Legend of 1900, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. In the following years, his fame grew throughout Europe, with his works topping the Italian and French best-seller lists. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses on narrative techniques including screenwriting, journalism, novels and short stories. In 1993 he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin, naming it Scuola Holden after J. He subsequently worked as music critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre.īaricco debuted as a novelist with Castelli di rabbia (translated as Lands of Glass) in 1991. ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īaricco published essays on music criticism: Il genio in fuga (1988) on Gioachino Rossini, and L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin (' Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin', 1992) on the relation between music and modernity. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

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