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Salvatore Quasimodo, recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Modica, Italy. His father was a railroad employee. He was educated at the Polytechnical Institute. He later was appointed to a position in the government Civil Engineering Department. During World War II he was briefly imprisoned because of his association with an anti-Fascist group.
Quasimodo began writing when he was a child. He published his first book, ACQUE E TERRE (WATER AND LAND), when he was 29. His best known work, ED E SUBITO SERA (AND SUDDENLY IT'S EVENING), was published in 1942.
Salvatore Quasimodo died in Naples, Italy in 1968.
CHRONOLOGY
1901 He was born in Modica, Italy. (August 20)
1926 He was appointed to the government Civil Engineering Department.
1930 ACQUE E TERRE (WATER AND LAND)
1932 OBOE SOMMERSO (SUNKEN OBOE)
1933 ODOREDE EUCALYPTUS (SCENT OF EUCALYPTUS)
1935 He left his job as an engineer.
1936 ERATO E APOLLION
1938 POESIE; He became edtor of the magazine TEMPO.
1940 LIRICI GRECI (GREEK LYRICS)
1942 ED E SUBITO SERA (AND SUDDENLY IT'S EVENING); He was appointed to the chair of Italian Literature at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan.
1946 CON IL PIEDE STRANIERO SOPRA IL CUORE
1947 GIORNO DOPO GIORNO (DAY AFTER DAY)
1949 LA VITA NON E SOGNA
1953 He was awarded the Etna-Taormina International Prize in Poetry.
1956 IL FALSO E VERO VERDE
1958 LA TERRA IMPAREGGIABILE (THE INCOMPARABLE EARTH)
1959 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1960 IL POETA E IL POLITICO, E ALTRI SAGGI (THE POET AND THE POLITICIAN, AND OTHER ESSAYS); TUTTE LE POESIE; THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF SALVATORE QUASIMODO
1961 SCRITTI SUL TEATRO
1965 QUASIMODO: SELECTED POEMS
1966 DARE E AVERE (TO GIVE AND TO HAVE AND OTHER POEMS/DEBIT AND CREDIT)
1968 He died in Naples, Italy. (June 14)
1971 POESIE E DISCORSI SULLA POESIA
1984 COMPLETE POEMS
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