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

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Selected filmography

Boccaccio '70 (1962) La cuccagna (1962) Careless (1962) Agostino (1962) Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)

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References

1929 births

1986 deaths

20th-century Italian novelists

20th-century Italian male writers

Italian atheists

Italian male journalists

People from Vicenza

Strega Prize winners

Viareggio Prize winners

Italian male novelists

20th-century Italian journalists

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