Question: Which writer was born first, Italo Svevo or James Redfield?
Context: Scipio Slataper (14 July 1888 – 3 December 1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay "My Karst".  He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses".  His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey".  The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of "Zeno's Conscience". Liceo Italo Svevo or the Istituto Italo Svevo (German: Gymnasium Italo Svevo ) is a private Italian international school in Cologne, Germany. Piero Weiss (January 26, 1928 – October 2, 2011) was an Italian-American pianist and musicologist.  Born in Trieste, his mother was a symphony violinist and the niece of novelist Italo Svevo.  In 1938, at the age of 10, he fled Fascist Italy with his family, ending up in New York City in 1940.  In New York, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova and Rudolf Serkin, music theory and composition with Karl Weigl, and chamber music with Adolf Busch.  In 1944, at the age of 16, he began his career as a concert pianist.  He performed throughout the United States and Europe up into the 1960s, and also performed for radio broadcasts.  He recorded works by Debussy.  Ravel, Schubert, and Schumann. Fabio Vittorini (born 19 December 1971) is an Italian literary critic, currently Professor of Comparative Literature at IULM University of Milan (Italy) He is known for his studies on melodrama and on Italo Svevo.  He has written many academic texts and essays. James Redfield (born March 19, 1950) is an American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer.  He is notable for his novel "The Celestine Prophecy". Una vita is the first novel of Italo Svevo, the author of the seminal modernist novel, "Zeno's Conscience".  Originally titled "Un inetto" – "inetto" may be translated as 'inept,' unfit', 'unsuitable' or 'incapable' – this name was rejected by the publisher, who requested that it be changed to "Una vita" – 'A Life' – which is also the name of a famous Maupassant novel.  The first draft was submitted in 1888.  It was refused by the publishing house Treves, and wasn't published until 1892 by Vram, at the expense of Svevo himself. Aron Ettore Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (] ), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Caffè San Marco is a historic café in Trieste, Italy.  It is located in via Battisti 18.  Founded in 1914, it became famous as a rendezvous for intellectuals and writers including Italo Svevo, James Joyce and Umberto Saba, a tradition that continues to date with Claudio Magris.  A meeting point for Trieste's irredentists, the café was destroyed by Austro-Hungarian troops during the first World War but was reopened when hostilities ended. Zeno's Conscience (Italian: "La coscienza di Zeno" ] ) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Svevo.  The main character is Zeno Cosini and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist.  Throughout the novel, we learn about his father, his business, his wife, and his tobacco habit.  The novel was self-published in 1923.  The original English translation was published under the title Confessions of Zeno.
Answer: Italo Svevo