Gianni Celati
Gianni Celati was born in Italy in 1937. A prolific wordsmith, in 2006, he won the Viareggio Prize for his novel Vite di pascolanti. He has also translated work by Jonathan Swift, Herman Melville and Roland Barthes.
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Thoughts of a Storyteller on a Happy Ending
Gianni Celati
‘By inserting pages or just strips of paper at the points which needed changing he transformed their conclusion, to bring them always to a happy ending.’