Writer and translator Gianni Celati
has died at the age of 84, his family said Monday.
Celati, who was also a noted literary critic, lived the last
years of his life in Brighton in England.
Born in 1937 in Sondrio in northern Italy, he graduated at
Bologna with a thesis on James Joyce and published his first
novel, Comiche, in 1971.
Among his other works are Narratori delle pianure, which won the
Grinzane-Cavour prize; Quattro novelle sulle
apparenze; and the trilogy Parlamenti buffi.
He translated Herman Melville's Bartleby, Stendhal's
Charterhouse of Parma, Hölderlin's Poems from the Tower, and
Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini saluted Celati as a "great
intellectual of the 20th century".
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