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Renato Guttuso e Guido Piovene, Mattia Moreni e Luigi Spazzapan, Carlo Mollino e Natalia Ginzburg, ma anche Keith Haring e Andy Warhol, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders e Jackson Pollock, Rita Hayworth e Max Ernst: mezzo secolo di uomini e donne d’Europa e d’America, che Fernanda Pivano ha conosciuto e descritto nel suo stile appassionato e giocoso. Questo è un libro sugli artisti più o meno illustri a cui la scrittrice, saggista e traduttrice si è avvicinata per passione. Protagonisti della cultura e dello spettacolo all’apparenza lontani dai romanzieri, poeti e cantautori che siamo abituati ad associare alla mitica Nanda, i cui ritratti sono indispensabili per capire la curiosità e l’ecletticità di questa donna rivoluzionaria, che non ha mai abbandonato la sua battaglia di pace nella speranza di contagiare i giovani di tutte le epoche con il suo amore nei confronti di ciò che è nuovo.

Fernanda Pivano (1917-2009) ha iniziato la sua attività letteraria sotto la guida di Cesare Pavese, curando l’Antologia di Spoon River di Edgar Lee Masters. Protagonista e testimone dei più importanti fermenti letterari del secondo Novecento, ha favorito l’introduzione e la diffusione in Italia di autori americani divenuti leggendari, come Hemingway, Kerouac, Bukowski, Jong e McInerney.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 26, 2015

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Fernanda Pivano

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Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.

Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum. There she met Cesare Pavese, who introduced her and her classmate Primo Levi to American literature. In 1941 she received a laurea (doctoral degree) with a thesis on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her a prize from the Center for American Studies in Rome. In 1943 she obtained a second degree in philosophy. In the same year she completed her first translation, the Italian edition of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi.

In 1948, Pivano met Ernest Hemingway. It turned out to be the beginning of an intense professional relationship and friendship that would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Pivano married designer and architect Ettore Sottsass and moved to Milan, where she would live for the rest of her life. Pivano made her first trip to the United States in 1956 and throughout her professional life she contributed to the diffusion of the most significant American writers in Italy,

She is remembered to have had very intimate friendships with the writers popularised in Italy and with she work with as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan. Chuck Palahniuk and many others.
She also worked with various Italian beat writers, with LGBTQ+ activist Mario Mieli and with singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André.

She published many studies on American literature, two novels and two volumes of diaries.

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