"Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (; ; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel ""Il nome della rosa"" (""The Name of the Rose""), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including ""Il pendolo di Foucault"" (""Foucault's Pendulum"") and ""L'isola del giorno prima"" (""The Island of the Day Before""). His novel ""Il cimitero di Praga"" (""The Prague Cemetery""), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote"
"best director. After a French film (Hot Head, 1979) that becomes a cult classic in his homeland, he moves to Kenya, Scotland and Canada to shoot Quest for Fire which brings him international recognition (1981, César - French National Award - for Best Film & for Best Director). He then directs Sean Connery on the Italian sets and the German monasteries of The Name of the Rose (1986, César for Best Foreign Film and David Di Donatello for Best Director), based on Umberto Eco’s eponymous novel. 'The Name of the Rose"", a film adaptation of Umberto Eco's popular novel of"
"John Florio Prize The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize was established in 1963. Today it is awarded biannually for the best English translation of a full-length work of literary merit and general interest. Runner-up: Aubrey Botsford, for ""The Ballad of the Low Lifes"" by Enrico Remmert Runner-up: Alastair McEwen, for ""Turning Back the Clock"" by Umberto Eco Runner-up: Abigail Asher, for ""The Natural Order of Things"" by Andrea Canobbio Commended:"
"Rose"", based on the best-selling novel by Umberto Eco. He since produced or executive produced John Boorman's ""Hope and Glory"", his second pair of back-to-back Oscar winners ""Driving Miss Daisy"", ""Dances With Wolves"", Robert Redford's ""A River Runs Through It"" and Henry Selick's adaptation of Roald Dahl's ""James and the Giant Peach"". During this period Eberts was also responsible as executive for the expensive flop, ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"", which thankfully went on to some popular success in home videocassette and DVD rentals. Eberts moved to Paris in 1991. ""Dances with Wolves"" was an early picture of Eberts to"
"rise to hatred and hostility toward the Jewish people. ""Numero Zero"" was published in 2015. Set in 1992 and narrated by Colonna, a hack journalist working on a Milan newspaper, it offers a satire of Italy's kickback and bribery culture as well as, among many things, the legacy of Fascism. Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others, 236 pages. Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (; ; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel"
"Third Kind"" – Joe Alves 1979: ""Alien"" – Michael Seymour 1980: ""The Elephant Man"" – Stuart Craig 1981: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" – Norman Reynolds 1982: ""Blade Runner"" – Lawrence G. Paull 1983: ""La Traviata"" – Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli 1985: ""Brazil"" – Norman Garwood 1986: ""A Room with a View"" – Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta 1987: ""Radio Days"" – Santo Loquasto 1988: """" – Dean Tavoularis 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Dante Ferretti 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – Richard Sylbert 1991: ""Edward Scissorhands"" – Bo Welch 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – Catherine Martin 1993: ""The Piano"""
"Emmys for his role as Columbo. ""Columbo"" was so popular, co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as ""The Columbo Collection"" (Crippen & Landru, 2010) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk/Columbo by Al Hirschfeld. Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in his films ""Husbands"", ""A Woman Under the Influence"", and, in a cameo, at the end of ""Opening Night"". Cassavetes guest-starred in the ""Columbo"" episode ""Étude in Black"" in 1972; Falk, in turn, co-starred with Cassavetes in the"
"since 1981 and has created 13 to date. The first, ""The Tokyo Zodiac Murders"" (1981), is the only one to have been translated into English. The themes of the Japanese novels are far more grisly and violent than those of the more genteel Anglo-Saxons. Dismemberment is a preferred murder method. Despite the gore, the norms of the classic detective fiction novel are strictly followed. Umberto Eco, in the 2000 novel ""Baudolino"", takes the locked-room theme into medieval times. The book's plot suggests that Emperor Frederick I had not drowned in a river, as history records, but died mysteriously at night"
"it was chosen by Michael Holroyd for inclusion in a list of 50 'essential' books (available in print at the time) in ""The Guardian"". ""Alan Turing: The Enigma"" formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stageplay ""Breaking the Code"", which was adapted by for Television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was later made into the 2014 film ""The Imitation Game"" directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. The script for ""The Imitation Game"" won Graham Moore an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Hodges is also the"
"you've won the Nobel prize!"" 20-year-old TV star Ambra Angiolini was alongside him in the car recording an interview, so Fo's initial reaction was captured on film. The announcement came as a shock to Italians and non-Italians alike. Umberto Eco expressed delight that the award had been given to someone who ""does not belong to the traditional academic world."" However, 86-year-old Italian literary critic Carlo Bo was mystified: ""I must be too old to understand. What does this mean? That everything changes, even literature has changed."" Fo's fellow Italian laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini expressed bewilderment when asked for her thoughts and"
"memorably adapted for the screen by Italian director Luchino Visconti and then, later, in 2002 into a more sexually disturbing adaptation by Tinto Brass. Another story, ""Un Corpo"" (also dealing with themes of sexual decadence and necrophilia), has recently been adapted into an opera by the Greek composer Kharálampos Goyós. Arrigo Boito, Camillo's younger brother, was a noted poet, composer and the author of the libretti for Giuseppe Verdi's last two great operas, ""Otello"" and ""Falstaff"". Camillo Boito Camillo Boito (; 30 October 1836 – 28 June 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art"
"""Widows""; ""The Last Song of Manuel Sendero""; ""Mascara""; ""Konfidenz""; ""The Nanny and the Iceberg"", and Blake's ""Therapy""—he has written short stories, including ""My House Is on Fire"", and general nonfiction including ""The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds"". He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theater Awards. In 1996, with his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for ""Prisoners in Time."" His poems, collected in ""Last Waltz in Santiago"" and ""In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land"", have been turned"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"as the winner several years later. Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first to win for adapting their own work, for ""The Story of Louis Pasteur"". Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein are the first siblings to win in this category, for ""Casablanca"". James Goldman and William Goldman are the first to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third winning siblings, for ""No Country for Old Men"". Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted"
"Italy in 1989, where he now lives. He has also translated contemporary Italian poets, including Franco Buffoni and Eugenio De Signoribus Richard Dixon (translator) Richard Dixon (born 1956) is an English translator of Italian literature. He translated the last works of Umberto Eco, including his novels ""The Prague Cemetery"", shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, and ""Numero Zero"", commended by the judges of the John Florio Prize, 2016. He has also translated works by Giacomo Leopardi, Roberto Calasso and Antonio Moresco. Richard Dixon was born in Coventry, in 1956. He was educated at King Henry VIII School and"
"composers who adapted them into operas. More than one hundred operas are based on Hugo's works and among them are Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" (1833), Verdi's (1851) and ""Ernani"" (1844), and 's (1876). Hugo's novels, as well as his plays, have been a great source of inspiration for musicians, stirring them to create not only opera and ballet but musical theatre such as and the ever-popular , London West End's longest running musical. Additionally, Hugo's beautiful poems have attracted an exceptional amount of interest from musicians, and numerous melodies have been based on his poetry by composers such as , ,"
"Ul de Rico ""Count Ul de Rico,"" AKA Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg (1944 - ), is an Italian-born artist and author of illustrated children's books, most notably ""The Rainbow Goblins"" (1978) and its sequel ""The White Goblin."" (1996) He was also a major artistic contributor to the children's fantasy film ""The NeverEnding Story"" (1984), based on the book of the same name by Michael Ende. Ul de Rico was born in 1944 in Udine, Italy. He lived in Munich for many years, studying at the Munich Academy. He studied painting under Professor Franz Nagel and, under the tutelage of"
"Baudolino Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. ""Baudolino"" was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a number of particular difficulties in translation, not the least of which is that there are ten or so pages written in a made-up language that is a mixture of Latin, medieval Italian and other languages (intended to reconstruct how a barely-literate Italian peasant boy of the 12th century would have tried to write in the vernacular). In the"
"2005: ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" – John Williams ‡ 2006: ""Babel"" – Gustavo Santaolalla † 2007: ""La Vie en Rose (La môme)"" – Christopher Gunning 2008: ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – A. R. Rahman † 2009: ""Up"" – Michael Giacchino † 2010: ""The King's Speech"" – Alexandre Desplat ‡ 2011: ""The Artist"" – Ludovic Bource † 2012: ""Skyfall"" – Thomas Newman ‡ 2013: ""Gravity"" – Steven Price † 2014: ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" – Alexandre Desplat † 2015: ""The Hateful Eight"" – Ennio Morricone † 2016: ""La La Land"" – Justin Hurwitz † 2017: ""The Shape of Water"" – Alexandre Desplat †"
"Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1954. In the 1960s, director Stanley Kubrick was interested in making a film adaptation of the novel, but blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky had already optioned it. Instead, Kubrick collaborated with Clarke on adapting the short story ""The Sentinel"" into what eventually became ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" (1968). Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told ""Ebony"" magazine about his appreciation of Clarke's story and expressed his interest in working on a future film adaptation of ""Childhood's End"". Screenplays by Polonsky and Howard Koch were never made into"
"for which he received a Golden Globe Award. Logan's feature films include ""Rango"", an animated feature starring Johnny Depp and directed by Gore Verbinski, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Coriolanus"" directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, ""Hugo"" an adaptation of the book ""The Invention of Hugo Cabret"" directed by Martin Scorsese and the ""James Bond"" film ""Skyfall"", along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. He wrote the ""Bond"" film, ""Spectre"" (2015). Two plays by Logan premiered in 2013; ""Peter and Alice"", directed by Michael Grandage and starring Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw opened in London at the Noël Coward Theatre"
"for leprosy in the India of Moghul Emperor, Akbar. Winner of BBC Bookshelf First Novel Award and a Booker Prize entry. ‘A significant literary discovery' (The Glasgow Herald); 'Astonishing imaginative brilliance' (The Times) Radio Drama ""Rainmaker"" (BBC radio drama, 1997) – two missionaries in 19th century Africa are caught up in a rainmaking ritual and sacrifice. ""Ice in Wonderland"" (BBC radio drama, 1992 – an adaptation for radio of the author’s novel, The Dreamhouse. Winner of BBC Best Radio Drama Script Award, 1994. ‘An original and remarkable script.’ (Radio Times) Film Scripts ""Forest,"" a 20-minute DVD commissioned by Warwick University"
"to distributors in 23 countries within days of its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The cast includes Moritz Bleibtreu (Bruno), Christian Ulmen (Michel), Franka Potente (Annabelle), and Martina Gedeck (Christiane). Atomised Atomised, also known as The Elementary Particles (), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998. It tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, and their mental struggles against their situations in modern society. It was translated into English by Frank Wynne as ""Atomised"" in the UK and as ""The Elementary Particles"" in the US. It won the International IMPAC"
"(1993), ""Il dio solo. Alle origini del monoteismo"" (1997), ""La scimmia, l’uomo e il superuomo. Nietzsche: evoluzioni e involuzioni"" (2008), ""Ingegno e congegno. Sentieri incrociati di filosofia e scienza"" (2011). He also published the essay ""Hippos e Homo"", about natural philosophy of horse (in ""Passaggi"", ed. by B. Cavarra e V. Rasini, 2011), and he edited works by Kant, Darwin, Bergson. As a screenwriter, he served his apprenticeship with his father Furio Scarpelli. With the screenplay of ""Il Postino"" (The Postman, 1994) he earned an Oscar nomination as well as a nomination at the British Academy of Film and Television"
"Bafta nomination. He edited, with an introduction, ""The City and the Court"", a collection of five Jacobean comedies. He has enjoyed a long career in television, favoured by Granada TV during its early days. His best known work includes Spindoe (1968), the controversial ""Big Breadwinner Hog"" (1969) and many adaptations, including M. R. James' ""Lost Hearts"", ""Jane Eyre"", ""Eyeless in Gaza"" and a considerable number of screenplays on Roald Dahl's short stories for ""Tales of the Unexpected"". Single plays for television include two entries in Play for Today and ""Blunt"" (1987), all three presented by BBC TV. His ten published"
"Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale, both of whom would go on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1959, 1975). Bo himself, however, never did and, at the age of 86, was rendered incapable of understanding Dario Fo's 1997 receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, saying ""I must be too old to understand. What does this mean? That everything changes, even literature has changed."" Bo was president of University of Urbino from 1947, for more than 50 years. Carlo Bo Carlo Bo (25 January 1911 – 21 July 2001) was a poet, literary critic, a professor and Life senator"
"The Prague Cemetery The Prague Cemetery () is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since ""The Name of the Rose"". The main character is Simone Simonini, a man whom Eco claims he has tried to make into the most cynical and disagreeable character in all the history of literature (and is the only fictional character in the novel). He was born in Turin in"
"to video and TV. In 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini directed ""Edipo Re"", a modern interpretation of the play. Toshio Matsumoto's 1969 film, ""Funeral Parade of Roses"", is a loose adaptation of the play and an important work of the Japanese New Wave. In Colombia, writer Gabriel García Márquez adapted the story in ""Edipo Alcalde"", bringing it to the real Colombian situation. Composer Igor Stravinsky wrote an opera/oratorio version of Oedipus rex (opera), premiered in 1927 by the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris. It is scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy, was written by"
"epic novel, ""Eric Brighteyes"". In 2016, long-time assistant of Kubrick's, Emilio D'Alessandro addressed that prior to his death, Kubrick was considering making a movie of Pinocchio. D'Alessandro said that Kubrick sent him to buy Italian books about Pinocchio. ""He wanted to make it in his own because so many ""Pinocchios"" have been made. He wanted to do something really big… He said; 'It would [be] very nice if I could make children laugh and feel happy making this Pinocchio.'"" (Kubrick eventually used the project based on Brian Aldiss short story as his ""Pinocchio film."") D'Alessandro also stated that Kubrick's life-long"
"Eduardo Lago Eduardo Lago (born 31 January 1954) is a Spanish novelist, translator, and literary critic, born in Madrid and currently living in Manhattan, New York, United States. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s novel, ""Ulysses"". In 2006, he won the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest and most prestigious literary award, for his first novel, ""Llámame Brooklyn"" (""Call Me Brooklyn""). For many years, he interviewed North American writers for the literary supplement ""Babelia"" in the Spanish newspaper ""El País"". He"
"Oscar for Best Original Music Score and two BAFTAs, Best British Cinematography (Colour) and Best British Costume (Colour) (Alan Barrett). Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England, the story features Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a beautiful, headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapproval from the local farming community. She employs a former neighbour, Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), to be her shepherd; rejected by her earlier as a suitor, Gabriel lost his own flock of sheep when they escaped from their enclosure, fled from a dog, and"
"to ""Otello"", an Italian grand opera in four acts that was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 5 February 1887. It was Verdi's second to last opera (followed by another Shakespeare adaptation, ""Falstaff"") and is considered by many his greatest. The popular opera attracts world class singers and is found in the repertoire of prominent opera houses. Verdi and his librettist dispensed with the first act of the play. Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film version of Verdi's opera starring Plácido Domingo as Othello was nominated for the BAFTA for foreign language film. However, it did not win the"
"1986 – ""Presenter"" “Blue Horses on Red Grass” Mikhail Shatrov 1987 – ""Ninuccia"" “Christmas at the Cupiello's” Eduardo De Filippo 1989 – ""Lisa"" “Save our souls” Anahit Aghasaryan 1991 – ""Sorrentino"" “Widows’ Comforter” G. Marotta and B. Randone 1995 – Eva “Ungrateful men” (""Love till death"") Aldo Nicolaj 1995–96 – Mary “Willy, Titi, Jig” Anahit Aghasaryan 2004 – ""Graciela"" “Love rebuff to the man sitting in armchair” Gabriel García Márquez 2009 – ""Filumena"" “Filumena Marturano” Eduardo De Filippo 2012 – ""Mother"" “The Mother” Karel Čapek 1982–83 – ""Lusik"" “Barsegh aga and others” Hagop Baronian 1983 – ""Policeman"" “Brave Nazar” L."