Biography of Mauro Corona

The Woods, mountains and adventure

August 9, 1950
Mauro Corona was born in Pine, Pordenone, on 9 August 1950. Sculptor recognised at European level, specialized in carving wood, mountaineer, is also a successful writer whose books have been translated abroad, particularly Germany. The birth of the little Mauro prelude to a life of adventure. According to him it is born out of a cart on the way leading from borgo di Piné the city Trento. When it was born, his parents, David and Lucy, are the vendors. Escaped almost miraculously at a pneumonia, the child grows at Piné, at least until 1956, when he is six years old and his brother happy, five. They return to their country of origin, in the middle of Erto, Valle del Vajont.
Here Mauro learns from Grandpa Happy art of wood carving, growing up surrounded by nature. His father is to convey the love for the mountains and then for mountaineering, taking him with him in hunting for chamois on the high peaks that surround Erto. In 1963, at the age of thirteen, the future Mountaineer turns his first enterprise, scaling Mount Duranno. Five years later, in 1968, eighteen years old, opened his first ride on the so-called Palazza. The mosaic on the personality of the young Mauro Corona is not yet complete. Missing readings, books, writing. This legacy should the mother which, abandoned the family after the birth of her third child, leaving at home an excellent collection of books, from Tolstoy to Cervantes. The future writer fills the void left by her mother with literature. Meanwhile, after attending the elementary school of Erto and averages to spar, on 9 October 1963 Vajont dam collapses and the town of Corona, like many others, literally disappears.
The young Mauro, narrowly escaped the avalanche, he moved to the College Don Bosco di Pordenone. Here the Salesian priests encourage her passion for literature and for study, but the future sculptor has in mind only lost nature, woodlands, open areas dear to his youth. Back to Erto, want to attend art school in Ortisei, but money is short and is enrolled in the Institute for Surveyors Marinoni in Udine, for free. There remains two years, then leaves. Meanwhile, in 1968 his brother Felice goes to Germany to find work but after three months he died drowned in a pool of Paderborn, at the age of seventeen. For the young Mauro is a blow and, after retiring from the school, find a job in the marble quarry of Mount Buscada as Stonecutter. Later, automate work, Crown left the quarry and is making the stonemason inspired, in his study of Erto, near his parents ' home. In the meantime, although keeping them hidden, never stopped to carve wood.
One morning in 1975 then, Renato G, businessman of Sacile, glimpsed from the some of the works of the sculptor and buys them all. A few months later, the same G commissioned him a Cross to donate to the Church of San Giovanni del Tempio di Sacile. The price is two million livres, substantial figure in the years ' 70 and than ever, the young but already good Crown, would have imagined they could get from his works with wood. With the money obtained from the sale then, buy the appropriate equipment to work better and to make wooden carving his real job. Follows, although on and off and for about ten years, the master Augusto Murer, great artist, painter as well as sculptor, which tightens even a sincere friendship. And, also in that all-important 1975, to spar, Mauro Corona organized his first exhibition. Gli anni ' 70 mark the explosion of all his passions. In 1977, the sculptor also becomes a climber. Fitted Vajont cliffs, overlooking the disaster area, and he began his career in climbing. In Friuli, every corridor of mountain, bears his signature. Ventures in Europe, up to Greenland, arriving in California, the legendary walls of Yosemite Valley. Meanwhile, a journalist friend begins to publish the "Gazette" some of his stories. For all the years ' 80 alternates mountaineering to his life as a sculptor, continuing to write stories. Personally chooses the wood to carve finding it in the forests of his native land and nature, the relationship with it, is always at the heart of his work, both literary sculptures that. Meanwhile, as climber, Mauro Corona open throughout her career, something like three hundred new dolomite rock overseas routes, in addition to many others spread throughout Europe. In 1997 he published his first book, "the flight of the Marten", for the Publisher Mondadori. In this they follow many other books, some very popular, as "the voices of the forest", 1998, "drops of resin" of 2001, and "the mountain", 2002.
That same year, then the author becomes a work of art, when the writer cartoonist Paul Chaudhry publish "Crown-the man of the forest of Erto." An extensive comic book, are narrated the vicissitudes experienced by the sculptor and climber Mauro Corona. During the same period then, takes part in the film "Vajont-la diga del disonore", which tells the story actually experienced by the sculptor of alert. He continues to write and indeed, participation in the movie inspires him to another successful book, which is titled "Vajont: those of after," published by Mondadori in 2006. Man, nature, the roots, these are the themes of his literary work, which continues with the lucky dogs, chamois, cuckoos (and a crow) ", 2007, winner the year after silver Thistle at the" Premio Itas mountain book ". The last book written by Mauro Corona is of 2011 and is titled "The Ballad of Lady ertana". Some of his works are translated in China and is the author of a book of fairy tales for kids, "stories of ancient forest," released in 2005 and reissued continually by the Publishing House Mondadori.
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