Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris (Template:IPA; born 10 April 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.

Life

Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" /><ref name="Britannica" />

He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and for other European journals and newspapers. His numerous studies have helped to promote an awareness in Italy of Central European culture and of the literature of the Habsburg myth, a concept which he coined in 1963.<ref name="Greiner">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Britannica" />

Magris is a member of several European academies and served as a senator in the Italian Senate from 1994 to 1996.<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" />

His first book on the Habsburg myth in modern Austrian literature rediscovered central European literature. His journalistic writings have been collected in Dietro le parole ("Behind Words", 1978) and Itaca e oltre ("Ithaca and Beyond", 1982). He has written essays on E.T.A. Hoffmann, Henrik Ibsen, Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges.<ref name="Altwegg" /> His novels and theatre productions, many translated into several languages, include Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Danubio (1986), Stadelmann (1988), Un altro mare (1991), and Microcosmi (1997). His travel writing is collected in Journeying (Yale University Press, 2018).<ref name="t066">Template:Cite web</ref>

His breakthrough was Danubio (published as Danube in English) (1986), which is a magnum opus.<ref name="Soboczynski">Template:Cite news</ref> In this book (said by the author to be a "drowned novel"), Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea, tracing the influences of Christendom and Islam on the formation of central Europe.<ref name="u244">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="c831">Template:Cite web</ref> Microcosmi (Microcosms in English) focuses on the Italian-Istrian borderlands.<ref name="e422">Template:Cite web</ref>

Decorations and awards

• 1980: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
• 1987: Bagutta Prize for Danubio
• 1990: French Award for Best Foreign Book (essays) for Danubio
• 1992: Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" />
• 1994: Gold Medal of Honour of the City of Vienna<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" />
• 1997: Strega Prize for Microcosmi<ref name="Britannica">Template:Britannica</ref>
• 2000: Würth Prize for European Literature
• 2001: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2001: Erasmus Prize<ref name="Praemium Erasmianum Foundation 2019">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001: Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (Grand Prize)<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001: Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin
• 2004: Prince of Asturias Award for Literature<ref name="Britannica" />
• 2006: Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2008: Walter Hallstein Prize<ref name="Altwegg">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2009: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels<ref name="Mainz 2015" />
• 2009: Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon
• 2009: Prix Jean Monnet European Literature
• 2009: Vilenica Prize – Slovenian international literature prize for Central European authors
• 2009: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain
• 2012: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
• 2012: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany<ref name="Mainz 2015" />
• 2014: FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages
• 2015: Pour le Mérite<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Mainz 2015">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany<ref name="www.bundespraesident.de 2015">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016: Franz Kafka Prize<ref name="Mainz 2016">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2019: Thomas Mann Prize<ref name="Mainz 2019">Template:Cite web</ref>

Honorary doctorates

• 1991: University of Strasbourg<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" />
• 1993: University of Copenhagen<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• 1995: University of Klagenfurt<ref name="Kurien der Wissenschaft und Kunst" />
• 1999: University of Szeged<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• 2011: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)<ref name="KU Leuven 2020">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2011: University of Barcelona<ref name="Universitat de Barcelona 2011">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014: University of Murcia<ref name="Universidad de Murcia">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014: West University of Timisoara<ref name="Universitatea de Vest Timisoara">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2017: Free University of Berlin<ref name="Freie Universität Berlin 2017">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2018: University of Regensburg<ref name="Glaser">Template:Cite web</ref>

Memberships

• 2001: Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Section Literatur<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Darmstadt<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• Accademia delle scienze di Turino<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />
• Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" />

Works

• Lontano da dove: Joseph Roth e la tradizione ebraico-orientale (1971; “Far from Where: Joseph Roth and the Oriental Hebrew Tradition”)<ref name="Britannica" />
• Itaca e oltre (1982; “Ithaca and Beyond”)<ref name="Britannica" />
• L’anello di Clarisse: grande stile e nichilismo nella letteratura moderna (1984; “Clarisse’s Ring: Tradition and Nihilism in the Modern Literature”)<ref name="Britannica" />
• Illazioni su una sciabola (1984; translated as Inferences from a Sabre, Template:ISBN)<ref name="a177">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Danubio (1986; translated as Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea, Template:ISBN)
• Stadelmann (1988)
• Un altro mare (1991; translated as A Different Sea, Template:ISBN)
• Microcosmi (1997; translated as Microcosms, Template:ISBN).
• Alla cieca (2006; translated as Blindly, Template:ISBN)
• Non luogo a procedere (2015; translated as Blameless, Template:ISBN)
• Tiempo curvo a Krems (2019)

See also

• Simon Winder

Further reading

• Pireddu, Nicoletta. (2015) The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Template:ISBN
• ---. (2012) "On the Threshold, Always Homeward Bound: Claudio Magris's European Journey." The Journal of European Studies 42 (4): 333–341.
• ---. (2022) Guest Editor, Claudio Magris and the Quest for Europe. Special Issue, The European Legacy 27 (7-8), 2022.
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• Wampole, Christy. (2014) "'Cyberia, Syberia...': Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris' Alla cieca." MLN 129(1): 162–179.

External links

• Claudio Magris, écrivain de frontière contre l'indifférence (on Swans Commentary) Template:In lang
• Nicoletta Pireddu, The Works of Claudio Magris. Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders (Palgrave, 2015)