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Political party
Italian Communist
Party
Awards
Hans Christian
Andersen Medal
(1970)
Biography
received his teacher's diploma at the age
of seventeen and began to teach
elementary classes in rural schools of
the Varese district. He had interest in
music (three years of violin lessons) and
literature (discovered the works of
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Lenin and
Trotsky which sharpened his critical
sense). In 1939, for a short time, Rodari
attended the Catholic University of Milan.
During World War II, Rodari had a
deferment from the army due to his ill
health. Due to his precarious financial
situation, he applied for work at the Casa
del Fascio and was forced to join the
National Fascist Party. Traumatized by
the loss of his two best friends and his
favorite brother Cesare's incarceration in
a German concentration camp, Rodari
joined the Italian Communist Party in
1944 and participated in the Italian
resistance movement.
In 1948, as a journalist for the
Communist periodical L'Unità, he began
writing books for children. In 1950, the
Party installed him as editor of the new
weekly children's magazine Il Pioniere in
Rome. In 1951, Rodari published his first
books, Il Libro delle Filastrocche and Il
Romanzo di Cipollino.
In 1952, he traveled for the first time to
the Soviet Union, which he frequented
thereafter. In 1953, he married Maria
Teresa Feretti, who four years later gave
birth to their daughter, Paola. In 1957,
Rodari passed the exam to become a
professional journalist.
Rodari spent the years 1966–1969
working intensively on collaborative
projects with children. In 1970 he
received the Hans Christian Andersen
Medal for children's literature,
[1][2]
which
gained him a wide international
reputation as the best modern children's
writer in Italian. The biennial award by
the International Board on Books for
Young People is the highest recognition
available to a writer or illustrator of
children's books. His works have been
translated into numerous languages.
In 1979, after another trip to the Soviet
Union, his health, never very robust,
declined and his productivity diminished.
He died in Rome, following a surgical
operation, in April 1980.
[4]
Cover for C'era due volte il Barone Lamberto.
He is perhaps best known for developing
the story of Cipollino. The story of
Cipollino was popular enough to have a
ballet staged in the Soviet Union in 1973,
composed by Karen Khachaturian and
choreographed by
Genrik Alexandrovich
Maiorov
. Cipollino, or Little Onion, fights
the unjust treatment of his fellow
vegetable townfolk by the fruit royalty
(Prince Lemon and the overly proud
Tomato) in the garden kingdom. The
main theme is the "struggle of the
underclass and the powerful, good
versus evil" and the importance of
friendship in the face of difficulties.
[5]
Works
Rodari's works have continued to be
published and re-illustrated by other
authors after his death, including
Nicoletta Costa.
Il libro delle filastrocche (“The Book of
Children's Poems”, 1950)
Il romanzo di Cipollino (“The
Adventures of the Little Onion”, 1951)
Gelsomino nel paese dei bugiardi
(“Gelsomino in the Country of Liars”,
1958)
Filastrocche in cielo e in terra (“Nursery
Rhymes in the Sky and on Earth”, 1960)
Favole al telefono (“Fairy Tales Over the
Phone”, 1962)
Gip nel televisore (“Gip in the
Television”, 1962)
La freccia azzurra (“The Blue Arrow”,
1964)
La torta in cielo (“The Cake in the Sky”,
1966)
La grammatica della fantasia (“The
Grammar of Fantasy”, 1974)
C'era due volte il barone Lamberto
ovvero I misteri dell'isola di San Giulio
(Twice Upon a Time there was a Baron
called Lamberto or The Mysteries of the
Isle of San Giulio, 1978, ISBN 88-06-
01578-8)
Novelle fatte a macchina (“Stories
written on a typewriter”)
Atalanta
Piccoli Vagabondi
On October 23, 2020, Google celebrated
his 100th birthday with a Google
Doodle.
[6]
2703 Rodari
1. "Hans Christian Andersen Awards" .
International Board on Books for Young
People (IBBY). Retrieved 2013-08-01.
Tribute
See also
References
(In Italian) Argilli, Marcello, del Cornò,
Lucio, and de Luca, Carmine (eds.), Le
2. "Gianni Rodari" (pp. 42–43, by Eva
Glistrup).
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards,
1956–2002. IBBY. Gyldendal. 2002.
Hosted by Austrian Literature Online.
Retrieved 2013-08-01.
3. Fairy Tales translated
4. Marcello Argilli, Gianni Rodari: una
biografia, Einaudi, 1990, p. 64.
5. Ballet Theatre of Lancaster Archived
2009-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
6. "Gianni Rodari's 100th Birthday" . Google.
23 October 2020.
Further reading
provocazioni della fantasia. Gianni
Rodari scrittore e educatore (1993).
(In Italian) Bini, G. (ed.), Leggere Rodari
(1981).
(In Italian) Boero, Pino, Una storia, tante
storie: guida all'opera di Gianni Rodari
(1992)
(In Italian) Cambi, Franco, Collodi, De
Amicis, Rodari : tre immagini d'infanzia.
Dedalo, 1985. ISBN 8822045114
(In Italian) Gianni Rodari : la letteratura
per l’infanzia, a cura di Enzo Catarsi.
Pisa: Edizioni del Cerro, 2002
Petrini, Enzo, Argilli, Marcello, and
Bonardi, Carlo (eds.), Gianni Rodari
Giunti-Marzocco, 1981.
Rodari, Gianni, The Grammar of
Fantasy, trans. with intro. Jack Zipes
(1996).
(In Italian) Se la fantasia cavalca con la
ragione : prolungamenti degli itinerari
suggeriti dall'opera di Gianni Rodari :
convegno nel decennale della
Grammatica della fantasia, organizzato
da Comune e Provincia di Reggio
Emilia, Regione Emilia Romagna, ARCI,
Reggio Emilia, 10-12 novembre 1982 ;
a cura di Carmine de Luca. Bergamo:
Juvenilia, c1983
(In Italian) Zagni, Patrizia, Gianni
Rodari. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1975
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