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Alessandro Spina - Wikipedia

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Alessandro Spina
Born	Basili Shafik Khouzam 1927 Benghazi, Libya
Died	2013
Pen name	Alessandro Spina
Occupation	Novelist, Businessman
Nationality	Italian
Notable works	I confini dell'ombra (The Confines of the Shadow, 2006)
Notable awards	Bagutta Prize (2007)

Alessandro Spina (1927–2013) was the pen name of Basili Shafik Khouzam. Born in Benghazi into a family of Syrian Maronites that originally hailed from Aleppo, Syria,^[1] Khouzam was educated in Milan and published his first story in Nuovi Argomenti. Following his return to Benghazi in 1954, Khouzam spent the next twenty-five years managing his father's textile factory in Benghazi while continuing to write in his spare time. Khouzam eventually left Libya in 1979 and retired to Franciacorta, Italy. Khouzam was associated with various leading Italian writers of his time, including Alberto Moravia, Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio Sereni, and Claudio Magris and his novels were published by various imprints such as Mondadori and Garzanti. His major opus was I confini dell'ombra, a sequence of eleven historical novels and short story collections that chart the history of his native city from the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 to the exploitation of Libya's vast oil reserves in 1964. Although Khouzam individually published each instalment of his epic throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the entire sequence was finally issued as a 1268-page omnibus edition by Morcelliana in 2006 ^[2] and was then awarded the Bagutta Prize in 2007. His work has been compared to that of Paul Bowles and Albert Cossery^[3]

Bibliography

Tempo e Corruzione (Garzanti, 1962)
I confini dell'ombra. In terra d'oltremare (Morcelliana, 2006)
Diario Di Lavoro: Alle Origini De I Confini Dell'ombra (Morcelliana, 2010)
L'ospitalità intellettuale (Morcelliana, 2012)
Elogio dell'inattuale (Morcelliana, 2013)

Translations

I confini dell'ombra is currently being translated into English by André Naffis-Sahely as The Confines of the Shadow. Volume 1 of 3 is available from DARF Publishers.^[4] Spina has also been translated into French. The first three novels of The Confines of the Shadow were translated by Gérard Genot as Triptyque Libyen (L'Âge d'Homme, 2013),^[5] while one of his short stories appeared in a translation by Michel Balzamo as Juin 1940 (Éditions de L'Herne, 2009).^[6]

References

^ Naffis-Sahely, André (July 29, 2014). "Spina's Shadow" – via www.thenation.com.
^ "Morcelliana, antico e nuovo testamento, sacra scrittura, teologia, filosofia, letteratura cristiana antica, esegesi biblica". September 23, 2014. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014. Retrieved October 9, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Lindsey, Ursula (October 1, 2015). "A Stage Across the Sea" – via www.thenation.com.
^ "The Confines of the Shadow by Alessandro Spina - book review". The Independent. July 30, 2015.
^ "Tryptique libyen - Le jeune maronite / Les noces d'Omar / Le visiteur nocturne Alessandro Spina". March 4, 2016. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "L'Herne – Alessandro Spina". www.editionsdelherne.com.

v t e Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
1920s	Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927) Giovanni Comisso (1928) Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
1930s	Gino Rocca (1930) Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931) Leonida Rèpaci (1932) Raul Radice (1933) Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934) Enrico Sacchetti (1935) Silvio Negro (1936)
1940s	Dario Ortolani (1947) Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948) Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
1950s	Vitaliano Brancati (1950) Indro Montanelli (1951) Francesco Serantini (1952) Leonardo Borghese (1953) Giuseppe Marotta (1954) Alfonso Gatto (1955) Giuseppe Lanza (1956) Pier Angelo Soldini (1957) Lorenzo Montano (1958) Italo Calvino (1959)
1960s	Enrico Emanuelli (1960) Giorgio Vigolo (1961) Giuseppe Dessì (1962) Ottiero Ottieri (1963) Tommaso Landolfi (1964) Biagio Marin (1965) Manlio Cancogni (1966) Primo Levi (1967) Piero Chiara (1968) Niccolò Tucci (1969)
1970s	Alberto Vigevani (1970) Piero Gadda Conti (1971) Anna Banti (1972) Sergio Solmi (1973) Gianni Celati (1974) Enzo Forcella (1975) Mario Soldati (1976) Sandro Penna (1977) Carlo Cassola (1978) Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)
1980s	Giovanni Macchia (1980) Pietro Citati (1981) Vittorio Sereni (1982) Giorgio Bassani (1983) Natalia Ginzburg (1984) Francesca Duranti (1985) Leonardo Sciascia (1986) Claudio Magris (1987) Luciano Erba (1988) Luigi Meneghello (1989)
1990s	Fleur Jaeggy (1990) Livio Garzanti (1991) Giorgio Bocca (1992) Giovanni Giudici (1993) Alberto Arbasino (1994) Daniele Del Giudice (1995) Raffaello Baldini (1996) Sergio Ferrero (1997) Giovanni Raboni (1998) Fabio Carpi (1999)
2000s	Andrea Zanzotto Mariano Bargellini (2000) Serena Vitale (2001) Roberto Calasso Giorgio Orelli (2002) Michele Mari Edoardo Sanguineti Eva Cantarella (2003) Franco Cordero (2004) Rosetta Loy (2005) Filippo Tuena Eugenio Borgna (2006) Alessandro Spina (2007) Andrej Longo (2008) Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
2010s	Corrado Stajano (2010) Andrea Bajani (2011) Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012) Antonella Tarpino (2013) Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014) Sandro Veronesi (2015) Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016) Vivian Lamarque (2017) Helena Janeczek (2018) Marco Balzano (2019)
2020s	Enrico Deaglio (2020) Giorgio Fontana (2021) Benedetta Craveri (2022) Marco Missiroli (2023) Gianni Biondillo (2024)

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