Tonino Guerra was born in 1920 in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. A primary school teacher, in 1944, during the second world war, is deported to Germany and imprisoned in an internment camp in Troisdorf. After the Liberatio... (Full Biography Below)
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Tonino Guerra was born in 1920 in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. A primary school teacher, in 1944, during the second world war, is deported to Germany and imprisoned in an internment camp in Troisdorf. After the Liberation, he graduated in pedagogy at the University of Urbino (1946), with a thesis oral on dialect poetry. Read the poems, composed in the prison camp at Carlo Bo; obtained positive feedback, he decided to publish them, at its own expense. The collection is titled The scarabocc (scribbles); Bo signing the foreword. Around him the form to Santarcangelo a volunteer group of young poets, which also Raffaello Baldini, Nino Pedretti.[2]the War, which he knew by heart the Sonnets romagnoli of Olindo Guerrini, recite them for the fellow prisoners to distract them from distress and homesickness. Then you start to invent new poems, which a friend's copy to him by hand.[1] In 1952 was the debut as a prose writer with a short novel, The story of Lucky. In 1953 he moved to Rome where he starts a successful business as a screenwriter. In his long career he has worked with some of the most important Italian directors of the time (Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi, the Taviani brothers, etc). From the collaboration with the ferrarese director Antonioni, the will also nominated for the Oscar award in 1967, for the film Blow-Up. In the eighties, back in Romagna. Since 1989 he lives and works in Pennabilli, the middle of the Montefeltro and romagna, which conferred on him the honorary citizenship in recognition of the love shown towards this territory. In 2006, appears in the documentary Mattotti Renato Chiocca, reading an extract from his collection of short stories, Ash. In 2010, on the occasion of its 90 years, receives the David di Donatello prize for the career. On 10 November 2010 he was awarded by the University of Bologna Sigillum Magnum. Is the father of the well-known composer of music for films and dramas, Andrea Guerra.Here he gave life to numerous art installations. It is of permanent exhibitions that take the name of the Places of The soul: The Garden of forgotten fruits, The Refuge of the Madonna abandoned, The Road of sundials, The Sanctuary of the thoughts, The Angel with the whiskers, The petrified Garden. His art installation, "The tree of memory", is present also in Forlì, at the Giardini Orselli. The war became famous for the big public in 2001, as a witness of the chain of electronics stores, UniEuro, creating the catchphrase of optimism[4] ("Gianni, optimism is the perfume of life!"), taken among others from his town, and great-grandson, Fabio De Luigi, in one of his comic character, the Engineer Dog. Dies at the age of 92 years in Santarcangelo, 21 march 2012, coinciding with the celebration of World Poetry Day established by Unesco. His ashes were embedded in the rock, above the his House of the almond trees in Pennabilli, where you can admire the valley, the country where she has lived for the last 25 years, and of which he said "is the place where you find yourself!". Tonino Guerra was an atheist.
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