Event dedicated to the memory of Mario Rigoni Stern, Asiago June 16, 2013

Event dedicated to the memory of Mario Rigoni Stern " Living " Literature, Asiago-Sunday 16 June 2013

Sunday, June 16, 2013, five years after his death, exact at 17.00 hours, at the Church of San Rocco in Asiago Centre, will be "Living Literature": an event that will remember Mario with readings of some of its songs. In the style that he loved, will reign the peace and simplicity.

The Celtic harp by Paola Magosso spoil us with musical interludes.

Many thanks from the institutions, who donated the town of Asiago, and parish.

Mario Rigoni Stern he scored the literature not only Italian, has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize. If Sunday 16 June you will come to Asiago, for us that we loved and we love it, it will be a poignant moment for sure.

MARIO RIGONI STERN

Mario Rigoni Stern was born in Asiago (Vicenza) on 1 November 1921. He spent the ' childhood among the shepherds and mountain peoples of the plateau of Asiago, just after the great war.

In 1938, he joined the Military School of mountaineering of Aosta and fights like in Alpine battalion Vestone, in France, Greece, Albania, Russia. Taken prisoner by the Germans when the Italy signs the Armistice (September 8, 1943), has moved to East Prussia. Falls at home, walk the May 5, 1945.

"The man of" not moving from his native country. It is used in the municipal cadastre until 1970, and then he devoted himself entirely to writing craft.

In 1953, Elio Vittorini, having defined non-writer vocation, public at tokens of Einaudi, his first novel the Sergeant in the snow, which soon became a classic of modern Italian literature, and who narrates, autobiograficamente, the story of a group of Italian alpini during Russia's retreat.

In 1962, Stern demonstrates its genuine talents of Narrator giving the prints of the capercaillie, which enshrines the universal and personal lives in his writings: the great love of a man for his land. The link between memory and nature becomes the essence of his work.

The clear and simple personal-historical re-enactment continues with the story of Tönle (1978) — portrait of a shepherd through the seasons of life that intersect with the big story — a tale from the crystalline and writing of immense narrative efficiency

Background of simple stories and suffered continues with the year of victory (1985) and ended with the seasons of Giacomo (1995), the story of the return to life of a community.

Stern has collaborated with «La Stampa», for whom he has written short stories, in addition to devote himself to historical studies, including the recent volume 1915/18. The Highlands war. Between the two world wars and other stories brings together cinquattotto stories written between 1975 and 2000. A good portion of these stories appeared in 1989 in the third page of the Turin newspaper under the title the magic Kolobok.

Sick for some time, the news of his death, which occurred in Asiago, June 16, 2008 for the express will of the writer, is disclosed only 18, the funeral took place. A collection of signatures submitted by the Friends of the mountain Group in Parliament, had Stern's candidate for the post of Senator for life.