2 Quotes & Sayings By Alberto Savinio
Alberto Savinio was born in Carpi, a small town in Italy. He was a popular teacher of mathematics and physics, and a prolific writer of poetry, essays and short stories. His first novel, The Shadow of the Mountains, was published in 1930. It won the Calvino Prize for best first novel
In 1936 Savinio published his second novel, The Rosary of Carniola. In 1943 he won the Enrico Morena prize for his novel The Blood-Red Flower. His third novel, The Door to the Wind, was published in 1946.
In 1953 he won the Sechi Prize for his play Vittoria, which was based on a poem by Savina Giuriati. During the last fifteen years of his life Savinio suffered from a heart ailment and was unable to work as a writer. He died on July 26th, 1968 at the age of sixty-six.