Tonino Guerra

"Tonino Guerra was born in Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna, in the province of Forlì, in 1920. His international fame comes mainly from his work as a screenwriter, having collaborated primarily with Fellini ('Amarcord', 'Ginger and Fred', 'The Ship', etc.) and Antonioni ('L'Avventura', 'Red Desert', 'Blow-up', 'Beyond the Clouds', etc.) but also with Francesco Rossi, the Taviani brothers, Tarkovsky ('Nostalgia', to which there is a brief allusion in the short story 'The Cherry Blossoms') or Theo Angelopoulos. However, he also has a vast literary work, not only narrative, but above all poetic in his Romagnolo dialect, in which language becomes an instrument of an original grotesque and fabulous transformation of reality, representing in fantastic form the world of the humble and marginalized."
As Italo Calvino said, "for Tonino Guerra everything is transformed into a story and into poetry: spoken or written or in film sequences, in prose or verse, in Italian or in the Romagnolo dialect. There is always a story in each of his poems; there is always a poem in each of his stories. And poetry means a precise, concrete, and unexpected experience, containing within itself a feeling and with the tone of a voice that speaks to us." He passed away in 2012.
Main literary works:
Narrative:
"L'equilibrio" (1967); "L'uomo parallelo" (1969); "Icento uccelli" (1974); "Il polverone" (1978); "I keep the moon" (1981); "L'aquilone. A favola del nostro tempo" (with Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982); "La pioggia tiepida" (1984).
Poetry:
"I bù" (1972); "Il Miele" (1981); "La Capanna" (1985); "Il Viaggio" (1986).