movement death_place death_date birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
neoavanguardia rome 28 may 1990 milan italian '' '' , '' centuria : cento piccoli romanzi fiume '' hilarotragedia '' , '' la letteratura come menzogna 15 november 1922 short story , essay , novel giorgio manganelli
 giorgio manganelli short story writer , essayist , novelist , translator
giorgio manganelli

giorgio manganelli -lrb- 15 november 1922 -- 28 may 1990 -rrb- was an italian journalist , avant-garde writer , translator and literary critic .
a native of milan , he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in italy in the 1960s .
he was a baroque and expressionist writer .
manganelli translated edgar allan poe 's complete stories and authors like t. s. eliot , henry james , eric ambler , o. henry , ezra pound , robert louis stevenson , byron 's `` manfred '' and others into italian .
he published an experimental work of fiction , `` hilarotragoedia '' , in 1964 , at the time he was a member of the avant-garde `` gruppo 63 '' -lrb- group 63 -rrb- .
`` centuria '' , which won the viareggio prize is probably his most approachable ; it was translated into english in 2005 by henry martin .
`` agli dei ulteriori '' comprises a linked collection of short pieces including an exchange of letters between hamlet and the princess of cleves and concludes with a fake learned article on the language of the dead .
he died in rome in 1990 .
he was an atheist .
