Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel Il padrone (The Boss) and the Strega Prize in 1982 for Sillabario n.2.
Works The Dead Boy and the Comets, translated by Marianne Ceconi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 Don Gastone and the Ladies, trans. by Stuart Hood, New York: Knopf, 1955 The Boss, trans. by William Weaver, New York: Knopf, 1966 Solitudes, trans. by Isabel Quigly, introduction by Natalia Ginzburg, New York: Vintage, 1982 Abecedary, trans. by James Marcus, Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990 The Smell of Blood, trans by John Shepley, Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 2003
Selected filmography Boccaccio '70 (1962) La cuccagna (1962) Careless (1962) Agostino (1962) Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) L'assoluto naturale (1969)
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