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Ennio Flaiano was born on 5 March, 1910 in Pescara, Kingdom of Italy, is an A 20th-century italian male writer. Discover Ennio Flaiano's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Writer, Screenwriter, Journalist
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 5 March 1910
Birthday 5 March
Birthplace Pescara, Kingdom of Italy
Date of death 20 November, 1972
Died Place Rome, Italy
Nationality Italy

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His wife is Rosetta Rota

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Children Lelè (Luisa)

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1910

Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic.

1935

Set in E ritrea during the Italian invasion (1935–36), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who rapes and subsequently kills an Eritrean woman and is then tormented by the memory of his act.

The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness and meaninglessness.

This is one of a growing number of Italian literary works facing up to the misdeeds of Italian colonialism in Eastern Africa.

The novel has been continuously in print for sixty years.

1946

Flaiano was a successful screenwriter and collaborated on several notable films, including Rome, Open City (1946), Guardie e ladri (1951), The Woman of Rome (1954), Peccato che sia una canaglia (1955), La notte (1961), Fantasmi a Roma (1961), La decima vittima (1965), La cagna (1972).

1947

In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, Tempo di uccidere (variously translated as Miriam, A Time to Kill, and The Short Cut).

1950

With Tullio Pinelli, he co-wrote the screenplays for ten films by Federico Fellini: Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I vitelloni (1953), La strada (1954), Il bidone (1955), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio episode in Boccaccio '70 (1962), 8½ (1963), and Juliet of the Spirits (1965).

1952

In the Montesacro quarter of Rome, the LABit theatre company placed a commemorative plaque on the facade of the house where he lived from 1952.

Critic Richard Eder wrote in Newsday: "To read the late Ennio Flaiano is to imagine a bust of Ovid or Martial, placed in a piazza in Rome and smiling above a traffic jam. In his antic, melancholy irony, Flaiano wrote as if he were time itself, satirizing the present moment."

A fine and ironic moralist, at once tragic and bitter, Flaiano produced narrative works and other prose writings permeated by an original satiric vein and by a vivid sense of the grotesque through which he stigmatised the paradoxical aspects of contemporary reality.

He introduced the expression saltare sul carro del vincitore ("to jump on the winner's chariot") into the Italian language.

In the last section of his book, The Via Veneto Papers, journalist Giulio Villa Santa included an interview with Flaiano for Swiss-Italian Radio, two weeks before his death.

The interview concluded as follows:

Villa Santa: This evening it seems to me, Flaiano, that you have opened yourself up as perhaps you have never done before, that you have revealed an anguish and above all a faith behind your humour.

But this gives rise to the suspicion in me that at bottom you are a man from another period if not from another age altogether; is that an unfounded suspicion?

Flaiano: It's a legitimate one.

We don’t know who we are, we are just so many passengers without baggage, we are born alone and we die alone.

A writer once quoted me in a book of hers, and in the English translation the English writer translated my name as Ennius Flaianus, thinking that this Ennio Flaiano was some Latin author.

A few months later we met each other in a restaurant in Rome and were introduced and, naturally, she experienced an awkward moment, for she didn’t think that this ancient writer was still alive.

However, we did agree that certain characteristics of my person, a certain style of life, indicated that she was right.

I perhaps was not of this age, am not of this age.

Perhaps I belong to another world: I feel myself more in harmony when I read Juvenal, Martial, Catullus.

It's probable that I’m an ancient Roman who is still here, forgotten by history, to write about the things that the others wrote about far better than I – namely, let me repeat, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal.

(p. 251)

1954

Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963).

Flaiano wrote for Cineillustrato, Oggi, Il Mondo, Il Corriere della Sera, Omnibus and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines.

1971

In 1971, Flaiano suffered a first heart attack.

"All will have to change", he wrote in his notes.

He put his many papers in order and published them, although the major part of his memoirs were published posthumously.

1972

In November 1972 he began writing various autobiographical pieces for Corriere della Sera.

On November 20 of the same year, while at a clinic for a check-up, he suffered a second cardiac arrest and died.

1975

In 1975, the Flaiano Prize was created in his honour.

Recognizing achievement in cinema, theatre, creative writing, and literary criticism, the international prize is awarded annually in Flaiano's hometown of Pescara.

1989

A movie adaptation with the same title, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starring Nicolas Cage, was released in 1989.

1992

His daughter Lelè, after a long illness, died at age 40 in 1992.

2003

His wife Rosetta Rota, a mathematician and the aunt of mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota, died in 2003.

The entire family is buried together at the Maccarese Cemetery, near Rome.

Flaiano's name is indissolubly tied to Rome, a city he loved and hated, as he was a caustic witness to its urban evolutions and debacles, its vices and its virtues.

In La Solitudine del Satiro, Flaiano left numerous passages relating to his Rome.