Edith Bruck |
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 Bruck in 1957 |
| Born | Edit Steinschreiber
(1931-05-03) 3 May 1931
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| Years active | 1959–present |
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| Spouse | Nelo Risi |
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Edith Bruck (born 3 May 1931)[1] is a Hungarian-born writer, director and Holocaust survivor. She has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian.[2]
Early life
The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she was born Edit Steinschreiber in the village of Tiszabercel near the Ukrainian border. In 1944, with her parents, two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally Bergen-Belsen, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945. One brother also died in the concentration camps. She returned to Hungary and then went to Czechoslovakia, where another sister was living with her family.[3]
Career
In 1959, she published her autobiography Chi ti ama così, later translated as Who loves you like this (2001).[3]
In 1971, she wrote her first play, Sulla porta. Bruck was a founder of the Teatro della Maddalena theatre in Rome. From the 1970s to the 1990s, she worked for the RAI as a director and screenwriter.[2]
She has translated works by the Hungarian poets Attila József and Miklós Radnóti into Italian.[2] Her own work has been translated into other languages including Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, English and German.[4]
Personal life
When she was 16, she married Milan Grün and moved to Israel; the couple divorced the following year. She then married Dany Roth, but that marriage also ended in divorce. She next married an acquaintance named Bruck to postpone her compulsory military service; she had divorced him by the time she was 20 but kept his surname. In 1954, Bruck moved to Rome and later married Italian writer and director Nelo Risi.[3]
Selected works
Source:[2]
- Chi ti ama così, novel (1959) (Who Loves You Like This (2001) tr. Thomas Kelso)
- Andremo in città, short stories (1962), title story adapted as a film in 1966
- Due stanze vuote, short stories (1974), finalist for the Strega Prize[4]
- Per il tuo bene, play (1975)
- Mio splendido disastro, novel (1979)
- Lettera alla madre, epistolary novel, (1988), received the Rapallo Carige Prize[4]
- Nuda proprietà (1993), finalist for the Strega Prize[4]
- Il silenzio degli amanti, novel (1997)
- L’amore offeso, novel (2002)
- Quanta stella c’è nel cielo, novel (2009), received the Viareggio Prize, adapted to film as Anita B.
English translations
- Who Loves You Like This, translated by Thomas Kelso (Paul Dry Books, 2001) ISBN 9780966491371
- Lost Bread, translated by Gabriella Romani and David Yanoff (Paul Dry Books, 2023) ISBN 9781589881785
- This Darkness Will Never End, translated by Jeanne Bonner (Paul Dry Books, 2025) ISBN 9781589882010
Filmography
Source:[2]
- Improvviso, director (1979)
- Quale Sardegna?, director (1983)
- Fotografando Patrizia, writer (1984)
- Altare per la madre, director (1986)
- Per odio per amore, writer (1991)
References
- ^ Edith Bruck: Who love you like this. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2001, p. 3; Philip Balma: Edith Bruck in the Mirror. Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2014, p. 2. Recently Edith Bruck claimed her birth year was often wrongly stated as 1932, while the correct year was 1931. Petrigani, Sandra (30 January 2021). "(Il Foglio, 30 gennaio 2021)". Sandra Perigani. Il Foglio. Retrieved 29 March 2021. Podcast source Archived 14 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine, minute 1:34:43
- ^ a b c d e "Edith Bruck". Institute of Modern Languages Research. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ a b c "Bruck, Edith (1932- )". Italian Women Writers. University of Chicago Library.
- ^ a b c d Balma, Philip (2014). Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives. Purdue University Press. pp. 2–10. ISBN 978-1557536877.
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Awards received by Edith Bruck |
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Recipients of the Rapallo Carige Prize |
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- Virginia Galante Garrone (1985)
- Giuliana Berlinguer (1986)
- Gina Lagorio (1987)
- Rosetta Loy (1988)
- (1989)
- Paola Capriolo (1990)
- Armanda Guiducci (1991)
- Susanna Tamaro (1992)
- Camilla Salvago Raggi (1993)
- Laura Mancinelli (1994)
- Sandra Verda (1995)
- Helga Schneider (1996)
- Francesca Duranti (1997)
- Romana Petri (1998)
- Anna Maria Mori e Nelida Milani (1999)
- Renata Pisu (2000)
- Paola Mastrocola (2001)
- Margaret Mazzantini (2002)
- Francesca Marciano (2003)
- Francesca Duranti (2004)
- Patrizia Bisi (2005)
- Silvia Ballestra (2006)
- Brunella Schisa (2007)
- Caterina Bonvicini (2008)
- Daria Bignardi (2009)
- Benedetta Cibrario (2010)
- Federica Manzon (2011)
- Francesca Melandri (2012)
- Emanuela Abbadessa (2013)
- Emmanuelle de Villepin (2014)
- Valentina D'Urbano (2015)
- Sara Rattaro (2016)
- Anilda Ibrahimi (2017)
- Rosella Postorino (2018)
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize |
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| 1930s |
- Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
- Corrado Tumiati (1931)
- Antonino Foschini (1932)
- Achille Campanile (1933)
- Raffaele Calzini (1934)
- Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
- Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
- Guelfo Civinini (1937)
- Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
- Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
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| 1940s | |
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| 1950s | |
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| 1960s | Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969) |
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| 1970s | Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979) |
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| 1980s | Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989) |
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| 1990s | Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999) |
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| 2000s | Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009) |
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| 2010s | Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019) |
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| 2020s | Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022) |
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