Niccolò Tucci

Niccolò Tucci (1 May 1908 – 10 December 1999) was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian.

## Early life and family[edit]

Tucci was born in Lugano, Switzerland, on 1 May 1908, to a Russian mother and an Italian father who became a Swiss citizen. Niccolò Tucci grew up in privileged circumstances that were eliminated by the Bolshevik Revolution. His family relocated to Tuscany.

His daughter, Maria Tucci, is an actress who married her father's former editor, Robert Gottlieb.

## Career[edit]

In 1938, he resigned a position with Mussolini's Press Ministry and immigrated to the United States. He wrote numerous short stories and a few longer works, many of which are largely autobiographical in their subject matter.

## Death[edit]

Tucci died on 10 December 1999.

## Selected publications[edit]

* The Rain Came Last & Other Stories
* Terror and Grief
* The Beautiful Blue Horse
* Military Intelligence
* Before My Time. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
* Unfinished Funeral

## External links[edit]

* About the Author at Wendy's Poetry
* Memories of the Good Life at The New York Times

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Recipients of the Bagutta Prize

1920s|

* Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927)
* Giovanni Comisso (1928)
* Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)

1930s|

* Gino Rocca (1930)
* Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931)
* Leonida Rèpaci (1932)
* Raul Radice (1933)
* Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934)
* Enrico Sacchetti (1935)
* Silvio Negro (1936)

1940s|

* Dario Ortolani (1947)
* Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948)
* Giulio Confalonieri (1949)

1950s|

* Vitaliano Brancati (1950)
* Indro Montanelli (1951)
* Francesco Serantini (1952)
* Leonardo Borghese (1953)
* Giuseppe Marotta (1954)
* Alfonso Gatto (1955)
* Giuseppe Lanza (1956)
* Pier Angelo Soldini (1957)
* Lorenzo Montano (1958)
* Italo Calvino (1959)

1960s|

* Enrico Emanuelli (1960)
* Giorgio Vigolo (1961)
* Giuseppe Dessì (1962)
* Ottiero Ottieri (1963)
* Tommaso Landolfi (1964)
* Biagio Marin (1965)
* Manlio Cancogni (1966)
* Primo Levi (1967)
* Piero Chiara (1968)
* Niccolò Tucci (1969)

1970s|

* Alberto Vigevani (1970)
* Piero Gadda Conti (1971)
* Anna Banti (1972)
* Sergio Solmi (1973)
* Gianni Celati (1974)
* Enzo Forcella (1975)
* Mario Soldati (1976)
* Sandro Penna (1977)
* Carlo Cassola (1978)
* Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)

1980s|

* Giovanni Macchia (1980)
* Pietro Citati (1981)
* Vittorio Sereni (1982)
* Giorgio Bassani (1983)
* Natalia Ginzburg (1984)
* Francesca Duranti (1985)
* Leonardo Sciascia (1986)
* Claudio Magris (1987)
* Luciano Erba (1988)
* Luigi Meneghello (1989)

1990s|

* Fleur Jaeggy (1990)
* Livio Garzanti (1991)
* Giorgio Bocca (1992)
* Giovanni Giudici (1993)
* Alberto Arbasino (1994)
* Daniele Del Giudice (1995)
* Raffaello Baldini (1996)
* Sergio Ferrero (1997)
* Giovanni Raboni (1998)
* Fabio Carpi (1999)

2000s|

* Andrea Zanzotto
* Mariano Bargellini (2000)
* Serena Vitale (2001)
* Roberto Calasso
* Giorgio Orelli (2002)
* Michele Mari
* Edoardo Sanguineti
* Eva Cantarella (2003)
* Franco Cordero (2004)
* Rosetta Loy (2005)
* Filippo Tuena
* Eugenio Borgna (2006)
* Alessandro Spina (2007)
* Andrej Longo (2008)
* Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)

2010s|

* Corrado Stajano (2010)
* Andrea Bajani (2011)
* Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012)
* Antonella Tarpino (2013)
* Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014)
* Sandro Veronesi (2015)
* Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016)
* Vivian Lamarque (2017)
* Helena Janeczek (2018)
* Marco Balzano (2019)

2020s|

* Enrico Deaglio (2020)
* Giorgio Fontana (2021)
* Benedetta Craveri (2022)

Authority control databases

International|

* FAST
* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Spain
* France
* BnF data
* Germany
* Italy
* Israel
* United States
* Australia
* Netherlands

People|

* Deutsche Biographie
* Trove

Other|

* SNAC
* IdRef

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