Giorgio Ficara
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Literary Studies
Panel Judge
Giorgio Ficara (Turin, 1952) is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Turin and has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Stanford University, UCLA and at University of Chicago.
Among his books: Solitudini (Garzanti, 1993), Il punto di vista della natura. Saggio su Leopardi (Il Melangolo, 1996), Casanova e la malinconia (Einaudi, 1999), Stile Novecento (Marsilio, 2007), Riviera (Einaudi, 2010), Montale sentimentale (Marsilio, 2012), Lettere non italiane. Considerazioni su una letteratura interrotta (Bompiani, 2016).
In 1984 and 2011 he won the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Prize, and in 2010 the Cardarelli Prize. He is a regurlar contributor to Il sole 24 ore and Chair of Jury of the Francesco De Sanctis Essay Prize.
