Antonio Tabucchi

Writing

Antonio Tabucchi

Born — Died

1943-09-29 — 2012-03-25

Place of birth

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Antonio Tabucchi (24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, he translated …

Known for

Apostrophes poster
8.5

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Apostrophes

1975

Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill poster
NR

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.

Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill

2004

José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo poster
8.0

A documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.

José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo

1998

On the Edge of the Horizon poster
5.6

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

On the Edge of the Horizon

1993

Dama de Porto Pim poster
8.0

"Dama de Porto Pim" tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love with him, but his husband could come back.

Dama de Porto Pim

2001

Runaways poster
6.5

On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her ‘friend’ Bruno during an argument. Rushing down the aisle, she meets Prune, who is looking for her father. The two young women hit it off and arrive in Lisbon...

Runaways

1995

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