Biography of Erri De Luca

Words and passions

May 20, 1950
ERRI De Luca was born in Naples on day May 20, 1950. At only eighteen years (1968), he moved to Rome where he joined the political movement Lotta Continua-a major Communist revolutionary-guidance-parliamentary formations became one of the directors active during the 1970s. After Erri De Luca learn different trades moving a lot, both in Italy and abroad: accomplishes experiences as a skilled worker, truck driver, warehouse worker or bricklayer. During the war in the territories of the former Yugoslavia is driver of humanitarian convoys intended for the people.
As a self-taught deepens the study of several languages; These include the ancient Hebrew from which translates some texts of the Bible. The purpose of translations of De Luca, which he calls "translations"-praised by the most eminent specialists in the industry-is not to provide a biblical text into language accessible or elegant, but playing it in the language most similar and adhering to the original Hebrew. As a writer he published his first book in 1989, when he nearly forty years: the title is "not now, not here" and it is an evocation of his childhood spent in Naples. In the following years publishes a number of books. From 1994 to 2002, his works are regularly translated into French language literary prizes: transalpine him "France Culture" for the book "Rainbow", the Prix Laure Bataillon vinegar, for "three horses" and the Femina Etranger "Montedidio".
ERRI De Luca is also associate reporter for several major newspapers including La Repubblica, Il Corriere Della Sera "," Il Manifesto "," the future ". Besides being a commentator is also a passionate reporter on the topic of the mountain: De Luca is very well known in the world of mountaineering and climbing. In 2002 is the first fifty-something to overcome a wall with grades 8b, Arenauta Cave of Sperlonga (8b +). In 2005 makes an expedition to the Himalayas with her friend Nives Meroi, who then tells in the book "on the track of Nives". ERRI De Luca is an extraordinary and prolific writer: between poetry, essays, fiction and plays wrote and published more than 60 works.
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